The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century

A stirring blueprint for American equality, from the "breakout stars" (The New York Times) of the young new left.

Democrat, Republican―the list of presidential candidates confirms that business is proceeding pretty much as usual. The Future We Want proposes something different. In a sharp, rousing collective manifesto, ten young cultural and political critics dismantle the usual liberal solutions to America's ills and propose a pragmatic alternative.

What would finance look like without Wall Street? Or the workplace with responsibility shared by the entire workforce? From a campaign to limit work hours, to a program for full employment, to proposals for a new feminism, The Future We Want has the courage to think of alternatives that are both utopian and possible.

Brilliantly clear and provocative, The Future We Want―edited by Jacobin magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara and the Nation's Sarah Leonard―harnesses the energy and creativity of an angry generation and announces the arrival of a new political left that not only protests but plans.