Bey also writes under the name of Peter Lamborn Wilson and has written and edited several books dealing with subversive forms of Sufi spirituality (see Scandal and Sacred Drift Essays on the Margins of Islam) and a book on Pirate Utopias!

Millennium opens with an interview concerning the release of Bey’s other works, Immediatism and TAZ. Millennium then moves on to an excellent discussion of the artistic and socio-cultural differences between American and European culture. There are few authors that can accomplish those kinds of insights, and that’s just in one chapter!

Five years ago it was still possible to occupy a third position in the world, a third way between left and right. But now there is only one world, the triumphant ‘end of history’. The end of the unbearable pain of imagination.

As Bey explains, a world where money decrees itself as a law of Nature, and demands absolute liberty, a society of ‘safety’, where creativity must be priced and the very process of resistance against this expropriation turned to profit ("Be a rebel – buy a Toyota!").

This refreshing approach to the all pervasive capitalist state provides a stark analysis of the reality of our world. In a one world mono-culture of global capital there can be no "third way". As a result, one is either absorbed into the system, or else enters into opposition. Millennium is not about systems or ideology; it is a prophetic and timely re-evaluation of what one means by saying one is left or right. It provides a basis, a millennial manifesto for the 21st century, a vision for an "enlightened anarchy" (to quote Gandhi) – a non-violent holy war for peace.

In a world of neo-liberal free market internationalism and global centralisation, Millennium sees nationalism on a collision course with capitalism which now no longer needs either the state or establishment religion to maintain its power base.

Here Bey comes close to seeing a limited role for the state or minimalist government as an institutional type of "custom and right", which a nation or society can wield paradoxically against the ultimate power of liberal totalitarianism/anarcho-capitalism and international finance – "an apotheosis of cybernetic social Darwinism".

In fact, as multinational corporations undermine the sovereignty of nation states, the national state becomes "increasingly irrelevant as a focus of opposition".

The most important contribution Millennium makes is in its chapter concerning religion and spirituality which – without conceding to theological liberalism (anything goes, so nothing goes) or right-wing bigoted fundamentalism – occupies the middle ground of "subversive orthodoxy".

Millennium concludes with speculative thoughts concerning a reinterpretation of Proudhon’s mutualism, the most consistent and paradoxical of early anarchist thinking.

Bey suggests that in western Europe the European Union must be opposed: Celtic secessionism should be encouraged in Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man; in Northern Ireland an independent Ulster based on socialist anti-sectarian solidarity might be a possible solution to the troubles, coupled with principles of regionalism, devolution and organic democracy.