Four essays, collected together and published posthumously. The first and longest, from which the title is taken, is great - a long, thoughtful history of socialist and working-class politics. I could take issue with a few assertions, but it's a magnificent piece of work, if not always accessible in style. I've been immersed in this stuff for years but I still learned lots.
The other three essays were not so great - a bit old, a bit rambling, they didn't do much for me. The last one, about climate change and the potential for cities to be agents of good change, had its heart and brain in the right place but didn't seem to say very much, at least not now - it was written 13 years ago.
But worth it just for the first essay.
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