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| Preface and aknowledgments | |
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| Revolutionary Moments and Ruptures | |
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| Revolutionary Moments: Lessons from the French and Cuban Revolutions | |
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| New Concept of Shared Humanity | |
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| Ubuntu | |
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| Elements of the Revolutionary Moment | |
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| Beyond Vanguardism in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Classical Music meets Jazz | |
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| Reparations and Revolution | |
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| New Militants and Sites of Politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Political Training of Barack Obama | |
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| Ubuntu and Non-Racial Democracy | |
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| Lessons in Ubuntu | |
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| Toots and the Dignity of Work | |
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| Training as a Community Organizer in Chicago | |
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| Searching for Life Purpose and Healing in Kenya | |
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| Redemption | |
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| Michelle Robinson: The Personal is Political | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Confronting Racism and Sexism in US Politics | |
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| The Electoral College and "Three-Fifths of a Human" | |
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| The Civil War and the Struggle for Democracy | |
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| Autonomous Organizing and the Harriet Tubman Principles | |
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| Reconstruction and the Third Phase | |
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| Counter-Revolution | |
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| Benjamin Tillman, Sexualized Violence and the Consolidation of Racism | |
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| Long-Term Legacies of the Third Phase | |
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| Eugenics and the Ideological Victory of the South | |
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| Eugenics and Technological Singularity | |
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| Conclusion: Democratization as a Process | |
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| Racism and the Old Left | |
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| Beyond the Limitations of Liberal Thought | |
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| Grassroots Organizing Confronts the Machine | |
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| Revolutions by Ordinary People - the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | |
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| Obama's Learning from the Ella Baker Principles | |
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| Beyond Vanguardism | |
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| The Conservative Counter-offensive in the US before the Rise of the Obama Phenomenon | |
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| The Attempted Intervention of Jesse Jackson | |
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| The Democratic Party and the Hierarchy of Power | |
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| Leaderism, Vanguardism, and the Party Boss | |
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| Technocrats, Bosses, and Political Advantage | |
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| From Bosses to Political Consultants | |
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| The Clintons Inherit the Party Machinery | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fractal Wisdom and Optimism in the Primary Campaign of 2008 | |
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| Campaigning as a Human Being, not a Black Candidate | |
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| Hope and Change | |
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| Scaling, Self-Similarity, and Recursion in the Campaign | |
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| Ubuntu meets Ubuntu | |
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| Proving Ground in South Carolina | |
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| Building a National Presence and Bottom-Up Fundraising | |
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| Obama's Amazing Money Machine | |
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| The Struggles in the Primaries | |
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| The Centrality of Economics and Politics | |
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| The Intervention of the Youth Vote and the Grassroots | |
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| The Iowa Caucus | |
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| The Centrality of Racism in US Politics | |
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| Internal Collapse of the Vast Clinton Apparatus | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Between the Past and the Future: The Democratic National Convention | |
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| Burdens of the Past | |
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| New and Old Forces at the Convention | |
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| Shadows of the Past and the Denver setting | |
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| The Promise of a Green Convention | |
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| T. Boone Pickens and Forgiveness | |
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| Insiders and Outsiders in Denver | |
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| The Clinton Brigade in Denver | |
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| Michelle Obama and the Caucuses | |
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| The Latino/Hispanic Caucus at the Convention | |
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| Who are the Latinos? | |
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| Roll Call and Nomination | |
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| Acceptance Speech and Marketing the Candidate | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ground Operation for Victory: Challenging the Ruthlessness of the Wounded Corporate Bankers | |
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| The Moment of September | |
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| Ruthlessness and Recklessness | |
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| The World of Derivatives, Politics, and Ruthlessness | |
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| Financialization as Economic Terrorism | |
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| Henry Paulson and the Drama of the Moment of September | |
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| Elements of the Coup | |
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| Speechless and Politics | |
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| Obama and the Presidential Campaign | |
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| The Legacies of Jesse Helms in North Carolina | |
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| Respect, Empower, Include - Observing the Ground Operation at First Hand | |
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| Youth Activists and the Wall of Hope | |
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| Tolerance and the Networks | |
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| Rowan County and Salisbury Town | |
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| Mecklenburg County and Crossing into South Carolina | |
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| The Nerve Center in Raleigh-Durham | |
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| A Divided Military | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Beyond Messiahs: Networks for Peace and Transformation in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Trap of Messianism and Militarism | |
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| Liberalism, Missionism, and the Long War | |
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| War as Peace | |
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| Would Obama End Up Like Toussaint? | |
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| Networking and Solidarity | |
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| The Peace, Anti-Racist, and Reparations Nodes of the Revolutionary Process | |
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| Peace and the Meaning of Work | |
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| Revolution and the Tipping Point | |
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| Peace and the Inheritance of Black Liberation | |
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| Progressive Women and the Peace Movement | |
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| Building a New Democracy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ubuntu and Twenty-First-Century Revolution | |
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| The Setting and the Challenges | |
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| Ubuntu, Quantum Politics, and the Revolutionary Moment | |
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| Environmental Justice, a Fractal Outlook, and Quantum Leaps | |
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| Ubuntu, Self-Organization, and Self-Mobilization | |
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| Abraham Lincoln and the Second Revolution in the United States | |
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| Ubuntu, Self-Organization, and New Leadership | |
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| New Leadership and Optimism in Society | |
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| Optimism as a Political Act | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |