Fighting Oligarchy

Praise for Charles Derber’s previous works:

“Charles Derber is one of our most astute and eloquent social critics… His political analysis is persuasive and is enlivened by graceful prose.”
Howard Zinn for Greed to Green

“In this lucid and informed study, Charles Derber breaks through the necessary illusions and shows how the United States is being turned into a ‘sociopathic society.’”
Noam Chomsky for Sociopathic Society

Praise for Fighting Oligarchy:

"If you want to learn about the history of progressive populism and its phony populist opposition, this is the book for you. If you also want to learn what you can do about Trumpism now, this is the book for you."

Ralph Nader

“Political optimism is scarce these days but Derber makes a powerful case that populism of the left has a broader base in American society than the mainstream media usually suggests. His book deserves to become a key text for uniting community organisers and activists of all kinds.”

Jonathan Steele, former chief foreign correspondent for The Guardian

“Corporate-backed right-wing populism will fail to address the real drivers of extreme inequality, stagnant wages and rising costs, and billionaire power grabs. As Charles Derber writes in this illuminating book, the only path forward is a progressive left populism, with a program to challenge billionaire oligarchy and corporate power.”

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies, co-editor, Inequality.org and author of Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet

“Derber’s contrast of far-right populism with a positive left-leaning populism offers a distinctive perspective on populism itself, and makes clear what needs to be done to defeat far-right populism. This is book that will give hope in the midst of dark times!”

Yale R. Magrass, Chancellor Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

“This text shows that we already have the tools we need to build this positive populist movement because we’ve already done this at other points in our past.”

Adam Saltsman, Associate Professor & Acting Chair, Department of Urban Studies, Worcester University