Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2002

Rethinking explores the question of how activists can both unify and transform their societies toward greater socio-economic and political equality—and in what manner and sequence to address the challenge. I look at the most dynamic social movements—women and workers—in four countries engaged in various forms of national struggle to see how and to what extent they enrich the strategic vision and the practice of leading political parties and what happens when they are prevented from doing so by the parties. I conclude that “[political] democracy without justice is ritual without substance, but justice without democracy is charity, not change.”