I really appreciated Susan Fainstein's article, Changing World Economy and Urban Restructuring, because while I respect and largely agree with the Marxist critique of capitalism it is often just that, at critique, no solutions, and no clear path out. Fainstein's article helps progressives visualize the possibility of change.
She explains that two world views, the macro and the micro are both correct and both should be understood, but that action usually happens on the micro scale. She does mention how national politics makes local change hard (think about California passing gay marriage, then getting a ton of national attention for it, and then voting it away again), but she suggests that at the community, city, and maybe even regional level that changing the relationship between government, capital, and people is indeed possible.
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