Reviews

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

mlnguyen91's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

arat's review against another edition

4.0

Very slow start, but the rest of it is a steady elaboration of why grassroots will always be preferable to pure theorizing. Online twitter revolutionaries will continue screaming into the void for a decade while people like Boggs will be trying to genuinely understand the lives of the people around her and improve them for the better.

Who cares about moral high grounds and niche political hot takes when no momentum will be generated? Congrats, you're perfectly correct on an issue, what has been done about it?

Never knew about her before this book: thankful to know about her now.

misterfix's review against another edition

3.0

if your looking for a place to start reading about how to build a new world then consider staying with this book to inspire you.

Pleasant read from a truly unique and inspiring individual but for me, the analysis and plans that the book elucidates felt a bit simplistic. While I appreciate and agree with the content I was hoping for a more detailed account. The stories she shares and the various activists that she cites are a start but that's all.

girlbosslindsey's review

I started reading this so long ago and I think it's good and valuable but. I just didn't follow through and I think I finally need to accept that.

aperson's review

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

bagxofxtricks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

anneliehyatt's review against another edition

4.0

Grace Lee Boggs' discussion of what good activism should be is stirring for the youth of our country. Boggs is an incredible and extremely accessible writer who fortunately does not possess the linguistic pretensions of contemporary academics. I would love if Boggs provided more concrete examples, though, for the ways in which people can engage in activism, especially young people who want to engage in politics at college.

henkoff's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

tielqueen's review against another edition

4.0

now i want to garden

on moving toward ~community self-reliance and an economy rooted in human solidarity rather than amoral competition ~

averygzls's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Everyone is a revolutionary! We just need to be brave enough to act on it.