What is the current state of leftist politics in the world, in the age of globalization and crisis within the social-democratic model of thought? In an attempt to answer this question, one of the world's leading philosophers of Western thought turns his critical gaze to the crucial phases that the Left has faced since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In an extensive interview, Antonio Negri offers his views on the fall of the wall, the Balkan wars, the Seattle protests, the Mexican Zapata movement, the new waves of immigration, the Lula experiment in Brazil, regime change in Europe, Davos, post-Tiananmen China, the Middle East, and much more.

Negri's analyses are of great interest if for no other reason than historical continuity. He was an active member of the Italian extra-parliamentary Left in the 1960s and 1970s and was indeed found guilty by an Italian court of being "morally responsible" for the existence of the Red Brigades. Time has not softened his views, but has given him new scenarios with which to exercise his particular intellect. Negri dissects and critiques the moments and episodes in the last fifteen years that have afforded the Left opportunities to rethink its strategies, both in terms of organization and of political programs and objectives, concluding that transformation is still possible.