John Asimakopoulos, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His publications include Revolt! (Transformative Studies Institute, 2011), The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012, with Eric Shannon and Anthony J. Nocella), Social Structures of Direct Democracy (Brill, 2014), and Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Temple University Press, 2018).