Full Description
Those who regard him as a "doom and gloom" critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics.
Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an activist, revealing him as a critic with deep convictions and many surprising insights about movement strategies. The book points to new directions for activists today, including how the crises of the Coronavirus and the economic meltdown are exploding in the critical 2020 US presidential election year. Readers will find hope and new pathways toward a sustainable, democratic world.
Contents
CHOMSKY FOR ACTIVISTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1:
REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE OF ACTIVISM
1 How It All Got Started
2 Stories of Global Activism
PART II
MOVEMENTS MATTER
Coming Together: Organizing for Survival with Justice
Enhanced Exploitation: The Neoliberal Project
Identity Politics and Class Politics: Common Interests, Labor and Collective Action
Activists and Evangelicals: Organizing Across the Cultural Divide
Identity, Intersectionality and Universalizing Resistance
Activism and Fascism: Then and Now
Activists, Movements and Electoral Politics: The Critique of Anti-Trumpism
Activism in the Age of Extinction
The Movement and Third Parties
Overcoming Isolation and Powerlessness: Movements and Community
PART III 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT:
CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE, WAR AND PANDEMICS IN THE TRUMP ERA
PART IV
REFLECTIONS FROM ACTIVISTS
