Marshall Ganz Responds

The capacity to mobilize “power on behalf of the common good” is rooted in people’s lived experience: their relationships, their values, the structure they design, the strategy they devise, and the action they take. One of the major ways in which the Left often goes disastrously wrong is to act as if its abstract ideas of how the world ought to be can trump human reality. Movements are movements of people, shaped not only by their heads, but also by their hands. . . and their hearts.