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“A powerful work of nonfiction, Graeber begins by charting the inauspicious beginnings of the Occupy Wallstreet movement and, to begin with at least, there are glimpses of typical activist infighting, snipes and snarks, qualifications and disqualifications, one group pecking at another for lacking authenticity, for doing things for the wrong reasons. This, you may think, is why the Left never accomplishes anything. The right are always so clear, so uniform, so forceful and defiant (of truth and logic and sense) while the Left chase their own tail. And then something clicks (another movie comparison: the book is as the moment when Keanu surfaces eyebrowless from his pod in The Matrix): we start to see an alternate version of events, a version of events that is not reported, that is ignored by the Right and used by the Left as a bargaining chip. “