"Must reading for anyone serious about understanding the history—and requirements of (!)—a transformative democratic politics at this critical stage of its emergent and potentially explosive longer term development."
–Gar Alperovitz, former Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland, and author most recently of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution.
"A fine argument for deeper discussion of what Manski hopefully calls the "democratic turn." So important are these issues that I have recently re-named my Peace and Justice Center to The Democracy Project. As we have learned repeatedly, participatory democracy enables a rank-and-file to be the driving force of social movements and even electoral campaigns.
But democracy doesn't arise only as a new society in the womb of the old, it is "pre-figured" by the scars and birth-defects inherited from our predecessors, especially the scars of sectarianism. I pray that the Manskis of this day find more success in times to come than we did decades ago."
–Tom Hayden
