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A winning strategy for the Left

James Rowe and Myles Carroll (Victoria): What the Left can Learn from Occupy Wall Street’s Rapid Rise and Current Impasse. Michael Schwartz and Kevin Young on a winning strategy for the Left: Social movements should focus on targeting corporations and oppressive institutions rather than politicians. Geoffrey Kurtz reviews Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy and What’s Left of the Left: Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times, ed. James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch. The radical Left, always a bridesmaid: Michael Kazin reviews Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War by Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps. Stanley Aronowitz on why Left governments falter once in office. Bernie and his fans: Erik Loomis on how the inability of so many liberals to think structurally is really exasperating. How an excesses of idealism and the embrace of violence destroyed the American left in the 1970s: Rick Perlstein reviews Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough. Sam Tanenhaus on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s tough lessons for liberals.