An uneven collection of broadsides from the counterculture of
complaint. In this gathering of pamphlets, interviews, and
commissioned essays, editors Ruggiero and Sahulka, publishers of
the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, tough it up in the face of the
conservative age. Left stalwarts like David Dellinger (who makes
the curious claim that there are more protests occurring now than
in the 1960s) and Noam Chomsky have at the failure of those of like
mind to get together and make The Revolution. "Progressives," Joel
Rogers writes by way of explanation, "have forsaken even the
ambitions of a mass politics." Rogers advances some interesting
ideas for ways in which the Left can stake out a new share in
American politics. So, too, does economist Juliet Schor, who sees
hope for an eventual leftward swing in what she candidly calls "the
slaughter of the Democrats in the 1994 midterm elections." The
contributors' takes on American politics may be of lesser interest
to general readers, however, than are a set of translated documents
from the front lines of Mexico's Zapatista Army of National
Liberation, who face a crisis of their own. The sense of despair
that runs through this volume is suitably postmodern, but much of
the rhetoric is solid '60s: Corporations are out to conquer the
planet; Somalia was invaded on behalf of Big Oil; Saddam Hussein
uses chemical weapons, but we used napalm in Vietnam. "Now the Cold
War is over," Dellinger says, "and the power-elite is desperately
seeking replacements such as the war on drugs (except those brought
in regularly by the CIA) and a series of invasions in Grenada,
Panama, Iraq, and Somalia." And so it goes. All in all, comfort
food for those who believe that the Trilateral Commission runs the
world and that everything bad is fascist, but of little avail to
anyone seeking a principled analysis of the nation's woes. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Noam Chomsky, Marc Cooper, Marge Piercy, bell hooks, and Seymour
Melman are just a few of the leading activists and progressive
thinkers who examine this nation's current conservative political
climate in a candid and provocative book that issues a call to
action amid inertia and represents trenchant radical analyses of
the key issues Americans currently face.
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