Free Download Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, 3rd Edition by Rebecca Solnit
English | March 15, 2016 | ISBN: 1608465764 | True PDF | 184 pages | 3.8 MB
"An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways."
―The New Yorker
A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable.
Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.