ITEM OVERVIEW
An ambitious and accessible mix of history, autobiography, and how-to-manual. Longtime inner-city organizer and founder of Positive Force DC, Mark Andersen takes aim at the illusions that tend to keep North American radicals self-satisfied but ineffective. A whirlwind tour across decades—through punk and student activism, identity and lifestyle politics, armed struggle, direct action, patriotism, globalization, and beyond—this book seeks a radicalism that is both rigorously self-critical and genuinely populist. Leaping from agrarian socialist experiments of the early 20th century to embattled 1960s streets, to the fiercely independent punk underground of the 1980s and 1990s, to the present day global-justice movement, All The Power suggests how the seemingly most idealistic of enterprises—revolution—might be practically accomplished.
"Mark Andersen is the living Holden Caulfield, committed to making the world a better place for all its children. This book reflects his deep caring and concern for the human condition, urging us to hold onto the dream of King and find a way to come together, again, toward humane revolutionary change." —Elaine Brown, former Chairperson of the Black Panther Party
"In your grasp is a heartfelt, brick-by-brick guide from a committed veteran activist on heart, soul, music, his own life's surprises, and how we can all bring ongoing change to our own communities." —Jello Biafra
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