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OtherWords' Sam Pizzigati reviews Gar Alperovitz' book What then must we do? Straight talk about the next American revolution and finds he offers more than fantasy. Alperovitz calls for an "evolutionary reconstruction" of society, and says that the seeds are already in existence: credit unions, co-ops and worker-owned enterprises.
