Welcome to the revolution : universalizing resistance for social justice and democracy in perilous times - a revolutionary progressive strategy for the Trump era and beyond /
Charles Derber.
- New York, NY : Routledge, c2017
- xxiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A call of action -- Part I The universalizing system: militarized corporate capitalism and the apoclaypse -- The system and its discontents: the militarized -- The PAC-MAN system: universalizing and extinction -- Part II Univeralizing resistance: The new rules and strategy of social change -- Irrestible resistance: The big waves of social change -- Movement GPS: Ten rules of the road to justice and democracy -- Fight the power, A.K.A. the system: Choose democracy over authoritarianism -- Win the majority: It's easier than you think -- Converge! Get out of your silo -- Democratize the world: Globalize and localize -- Panchamama: Protect Mother Earth -- Don't just say no: Say yes to alternatives -- Create media of, by, and for the people: Moving beyond propaganda -- Let's get political: Movements and electrons -- Think, learn, and teach: Education as activism -- Choose life and love: The culture of activism -- Part III From vison to practice -- Grand strategy: Answering the big questions -- Walking the talk: Nuts and bolts
"When the Women's March gathered millions just one day after Trump's inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump's election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism's growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability. Derber offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements," can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power. Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right wing movements that helped create the Trump era. He shows how left universalizing movements can--and must--converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for this new progressive movement. Brief guest "interludes" by Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Fletcher, Juliet Schor, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Matt Nelson, Janet Wallace, and other prominent figures tell how to coalesce and universalize activism into a more powerful movement wave--at local, community, national, and international levels. Vivid and highly accessible, this book is for activists, students, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale, theory, practice, humanism, love, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need." --Amazon
9781138648203 (paperback)
2017005859
Political participation--United States Democracy--United States Protest movements--United States Social justice--United States