Universalizing Resistance
Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People
1st Edition
By Charles Derber
May 26, 2026
In contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trump’s authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that explains the extent to which authoritarianism has been embraced by large sections of US voters. Wired ...
Fighting Oligarchy: How Positive Populism Can Reclaim America
1st Edition
By Charles Derber
December 01, 2025
This book offers a new analysis of why Trump’s Far Right populism helped him win the Presidency twice, and how it enshrined a corporate establishment that he claimed to run against. Charles Derber presents a counter history of positive left populism and argues that populist parties gain power in ...
Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy
1st Edition
By Charles Derber
June 05, 2025
Charles Derber shows how the US is moving toward sociocide – the erosion of durable, positive social relations in the economy, family, politics, and civil society essential to sustaining society itself – while offering pragmatic solutions. Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the ...
How We Win: Energizing Strategies, Voters, and Agendas
1st Edition
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By Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Matt Nelson, Nancy Treviño
September 13, 2024
This book uniquely demonstrates how a new combination of communities, progressive visions, and strategies provide a path to defeat fascist machinations and strengthen social justice movements. Would-be change agents, be they first-time voters, freshly minted activists, impacted communities, or ...
Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It
1st Edition
By Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar
July 24, 2023
This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced. The authors challenge the widespread notion that a green and peaceful set of technological reforms in the current economic and political system – perhaps a “...
Chomsky for Activists
1st Edition
By Noam Chomsky, Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Paul Shannon
December 31, 2020
Those who regard him as a “doom and gloom” critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics. Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an ...
Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency
1st Edition
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By Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Matt Nelson
July 20, 2020
Turnout! offers strategies for "emergency elections," like the 2020 races, and addresses the nuts-and-bolts for civic groups and individuals to effectively turn out the vote. Indeed, few elections in recent history represent the kind of apocalyptic turning point for our planet and democracy as the ...
Internationalism or Extinction
1st Edition
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By Charles Derber, Noam Chomsky, Suren Moodliar, Paul Shannon
December 30, 2019
In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats ...
Glorious Causes: The Irrationality of Capitalism, War and Politics
1st Edition
By Yale R. Magrass, Charles Derber
November 04, 2019
Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe – especially Germany – between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in ...
Moving Beyond Fear: Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy
1st Edition
By Charles Derber, Yale R. Magrass
December 17, 2018
While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political and economic system that brought them to power. Derber and Magrass offer a penetrating examination of this phenomenon across history and types of ...
Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times
1st Edition
By Charles Derber
June 06, 2017
When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of ...