The Point of Philosophy Is to Change the World: A Review of Walden Bello's "Global Battlefields"

The Point of Philosophy Is to Change the World: A Review of Walden Bello's "Global Battlefields"

A great political memoir uses an individual story to humanize the dilemmas of fighting to remake the whole world. Such is the case with Walden Bello’s compelling new memoir, Global Battlefields. Throughout the book Bello dissects a central tension in his political life: the dance of ideas and action. Bello makes this theme clear through his repeated citation (at least four times by my count) of Karl Marx’s declaration in Theses on Feuerbach: “Ph…