Up From Socialism: The Heartbreaking Memoir Offering Hope to the Woke

Up From Socialism: My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics (Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, edited by Adam Bellow, distributed by Simon & Schuster).

I have a confession to make.
I am a horrible person.

I am asking you to do something I haven’t done myself.

Maybe because I’m lazy and cowardly.
Or too busy. Or the wrong person.

But if you are hungry to change the world, and heal all the horrific wrongs you see in society, you need to read Mark Satin‘s latest book.

Because as he readily admits, he has tried and failed at that probably more times than anyone…

Perhaps even more importantly, he understands the profound truth very few activists dare face: much of our passion to fix a broken world is really a way to hide from our own broken hearts. If we truly want to save the world, we must first save ourselves.

Mark doesn’t have any pat answers or easy solutions. But what he offers is an unflinching yet compassionate personal narrative about the true scope and depth of the problem.

And just maybe — if we are willing to learn from his hard-earned mistakes — a chance to do better.