Be Realistic

Demand the Impossible

Labor movement

With wit, humor and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the poor and working class by the 1%, Mike Davis, a Macarthur Fellow, Lannan Literary Foundation Award winner and Isaac Deutscher Award recipient, crafts a striking defense of Occupy Wall Street and lays out well considered next steps to advance the movement.

About the author

Mike Davis is a MacArthur fellow as well as being a social commentator, urban theorist, and sociographer, and is best known for his investigations of class structures in his native Southern California. He is the author of many books including Ecology of Fear and The Monster at Our Door.

Reviews

“A rare combination of an author, Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.” -- Susan Faludi

"Davis remains our penman of lost souls and lost scenarios: He culls nuggets of avarice and depredation the way miners chisel coal." –- The Nation

"Davis' work is the cruel and perpetual folly of the ruling elites." --The New York Times

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