For the hype this book has gotten among leftists, it is pretty underwhelming. The best way I can think to describe it is: risk-averse. Too cowardly for hot takes, just the mildest, tamest takes, no deep interaction with other texts, only shallow commenting and paraphrasing (of Marx, Fromm, hooks...), no originality. I did like the autobiographical bits; if those had taken up more space, if Kurt had taken the risk of getting more personal, more introspective, that would have made up for the theoretical shallowness of the text.