The Revolution Will be Hilarious & Other Essays

The Revolution Will Be Hilarious & Other Essays span from apocalypse to revolution, from the philosophy of comedy to the significance of home.

In this collection of essays Adam Michael Krause describes the environmental and political dangers we face, as well as the mechanisms that keep them in place, while offering ideas on how to extricate ourselves from this terrifying predicament.

While moving between topics like Shakers, Shakespeare, Richard Pryor, John Brown, civil disobedience, the Book of Revelation, and the theory of relativity, Krause’s prose elegantly weaves a cohesive call to action.

He insists we meet the world with an open mind and learn from a wide variety of traditions. Indeed, if we want our descendants to actually exist, we must rethink our sense of community and foster our political creativity.

Adam Michael Krause (1977—) is an author, musician, activist and carpenter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has performed and recorded music for more than half his life, and has written and published numerous essays and articles on radical politics and avant-garde art, including the New Compass publication Art as Politics. Krause has been heavily involved in the cooperative movement, most notably, as one of the founders of Build Milwaukee Cooperative, a collectively-owned, consensus-based construction company.