A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today''s activism.The 1970s was a decade of "subversives". Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of order-politicians, law enforcement, journalists, and conservative intellectuals-saw subversives everywhere. From indigenous peasant armies and gay liberation organizations, to anti-nuclear activists and Black liberation militants, subversives challenged authority, laid siege to the established order, and undermined time-honored ways of life. Every corner of the left wasfertile ground for subversive elements, which the forces of order had to root out and destroy-a project they pursued with zeal and brutality. In The Subversive Seventies, Michael Hardt sets out to show that popular understandings of the political movements of the seventies-often seen as fractious, violent, and largely unsuccessful-are not just inaccurate, but foreclose valuable lesson
