Haymarket Books

—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me

Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost

Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians and Planet of Slums

Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater

Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me

Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules

David Swanson, Fire Dog Lake

—Dan Froomkin, Nieman Watchdog

Tom Engelhardt’s The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s

Since the rise of global capitalism and related ideologies associated with neoliberalism, it has become especially important to identify the dangers of individualism. Progressive struggles—whether they are focused on racism, repression, poverty, or other issues—are doomed to fail if they do not also attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist individualism. Even as Nelson Mandela always insisted that his accomplishments were collective, always also achieved by the men and women who were his comrades, the media attempted to sanctify him as a heroic individual.