I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.