The Left Alternative
Paperback, 197 pages
ISBN: 9781844673704
October 2009
$14.95 / £7.99
Other Editions
Hardback, 179 pages
ISBN: 9781844670482
March 2006
$23.00 / £15.00
Reviews
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“A good book to stir up leftists.”
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“Roberto Mangabeira Unger's book may someday make possible a new national romance ... a hitherto undreamt-of national future.”
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“A restless visionary.”
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“A philosophical mind out of the Third World turning tables, to become a synoptist and seer of the First.”
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“Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill ... a political philosopher extraordinaire.”
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“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.”
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Roberto Unger - Visions for the Future
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Roberto Unger speaks out against former student Barack Obama
Roberto Unger, author of The Left Alternative, is speaking out against the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, his former student at Harvard Law School. In a YouTube video recently featured in the Huffington Post, Unger speaks about the necessity of defeating Obama in the upcoming Presidential Election in order to advance the progressive cause in the long run.
"The government bribed, placated, and finally abandonned the people," he says of the Democratic Party's response to the financial crisis, adding that the Party "proposes no new directions." "He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money" and "has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle," says Unger of Obama. While he admints that a Republican presidency will come with a cost, he thinks that this cost will be minimal and that the risk of "military adventurism" will be high no matter which candidate wins in November.
Watch the full interview here:
