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Book SynopsisConfronting the major debates in the world today-about national alternatives and alternative globalizations-Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface,
The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.
Trade ReviewA good book to stir up leftists. -- Tyler Cowen * Bloomberg Business Week *
Roberto Mangabeira Unger's book may someday make possible a new national romance ... a hitherto undreamt-of national future. -- Richard Rorty
A restless visionary. * New York Times *
A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First. -- Perry Anderson
Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill ... a political philosopher extraordinaire. * Chronicle of Higher Education *
This book has influenced how I think and what I do. It sets out the principles for a future Left and crucially challenges us to think not just about how we spend revenues but how we might create them. -- Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass
