ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right-wing movements that helped to create the Trump era. When the Women's March gathered millions just one day after Donald Trump's inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. The book offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. It shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements", can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and Far Right power. The book also shows how Left universalizing movements can—and must—converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for this new progressive movement.
