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Gaddafi's "The Green Book" - Paperback
$19.94
by Muammar Al-Gaddafi (Author)
The Green Book is a three-part political and social manifesto written by Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011), the Libyan revolutionary and military officer who ruled Libya from 1969 until 2011. Born to a Bedouin family in the Libyan desert, Gaddafi led a bloodless coup that overthrew the monarchy and went on to develop his own ideological framework known as the Third Universal Theory, positioned as an alternative to both capitalism and communism.
The book, first published in 1975 with subsequent parts released through 1981, outlines Gaddafi’s vision for direct democracy through popular congresses and people’s committees in its first section, The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People. The second part, The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism, addresses economic organization, rejecting wage labor in favor of partnerships and collective ownership. The third part, The Social Basis of the Third Universal Theory, explores social structures including family, tribe, nation, women’s roles, and broader human society.
A primary source and foundational text of Libyan Jamahiriya governance, The Green Book presents Gaddafi’s unfiltered political philosophy for readers interested in 20th-century revolutionary thought, alternative systems of government, and critiques of traditional democracy and economics.
Number of Pages: 108
Dimensions: 0.22 x 11 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2022