{"article":{"id":295378,"heading":"\u201cHegemony How-To\u201d: Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power","author":"repost idVer:0c1168cb1e43acd0bfdef6e59a08f661","created":"2017-05-22 19:24:03","modified":"2017-05-22 19:24:03","last_modified":"Tue, 23 May 2017 02:24:03","article":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/19\/hegemony-how-to-rethinking-activism-and-embracing-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/19\/hegemony-how-to-rethinking-activism-and-embracing-power\/<\/a> <br><br> May 19, 2017 <br>  <br> &ldquo;Hegemony How-To&rdquo;: Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power <br>  <br> by Bruce E. Levine <br><br> Occupy Wall Street insider Jonathan Smucker&rsquo;s recently published Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals (AK Press, 2017) is the post-Occupy guide for how to be smarter about politics. Smucker, a long-time grassroots organizer, does not dismiss what Occupy did right but is honest about its failures. The 99% remain just as powerless as ever, and we still have endless wars, corporate control, and increasing social and economic injustices. <br><br> In the tradition of Saul Alinsky and Antonio Gramsci, Smucker points out that &ldquo;knowledge of what is wrong with a social system and knowledge of how to change the system are two completely different categories of knowledge.&rdquo; \n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/19\/hegemony-how-to-rethinking-activism-and-embracing-power\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"knowledge of what is wrong with a social system and knowledge of how to change the system are two completely different categories of knowledge.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2017\/05\/295378.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}