This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony
to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the
dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its
political expressions through discussions of the dominance of finance capital in the late
twentieth century the triumph of ideology the closing of avenues to reform the problem of
the captive state and a sociological analysis of rule by divide and conquer. The book
concludes with a look at the history of movement politics in culture arts economics and
politics. It resounds with a hope that challenges to hegemony can use many paths to change of
which the electoral path is but one of many fronts in the long-term struggle for radical
reform.
