• Publisher: PM Press
• Release Date: Apr 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781604861105

What Would It Mean to Win?

What Would It Mean to Win? reviewed by Rebecca Solnit

The history of the past half-century and particularly the last decade is as easily told as a series of victories as defeats, maybe best as both. Sometimes we won--and this is what makes the What Does It Mean to Win? anthology such a powerful vision of the possible and the seldom-seen present. The authors of this book connect some of the more remarkable events of the last decade -- in Oaxaca, in the banlieus of Paris, in the crises of neoliberalism -- into a constellation of possibilities and demands, demands on the world but also demands on the readers, to think afresh of what is possible and what it takes to get there. As one author begins, 'The new movements embodied and posited deliberate reactions to the practical and theoretical failures of previous political approaches on the left.' This is the book about what came after the failures, and what's to come