"This book is an invitation to imagine a world where everyday people determine their own lives both in the workplace and the community. It updates the radical syndicalist tradition for the 21st Century. After reading you may feel the sudden urge to fire your boss, show the landlord the door, and conspire with your neighbors to change just about everything."
–James Tracy, author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power "Tom Wetzel's probing inquisitiveness, together with his astute thoughts and vivid observations, breathes life into each and every chapter in this exhilarating book, and brings the reader closer to everyday life after capitalism."
–Andrej Grubačic, co-author of Wobblies and Zapatistas "Tom Wetzel is one of the most important libertarian socialist thinkers and activists in the United States today. His book, Overcoming Capitalism, is a must read for anyone interested in alternatives to capitalism. Wetzel draws lessons from the history of libertarian socialist movements and struggles over the past century that would do an academic historian proud! But unlike academics, Wetzel puts that deep knowledge of history to use in formulating a concrete and informed vision of what kind of socialism we should be fighting for in the twenty-first century. Written in plain English, free of leftist jargon, full of common sense as well as nuance, Wetzel has produced a "gem." This is just the kind of book leftists need to read to avoid repeating mistakes and reinventing square wheels."
–Robin Hahnel, author of Democratic Economic Planning