This has been said about a million times here. An equal million of times have been used to show that nothing else that's been or is being tried will work. This is old news. Progressive, expert, and/or scientific legislative, bureaucratic and party management only serves the powerful. Under very different global political economic and military industrial conditions that kind of management - influenced by variously critical and little-p progressive mobilizations - served the general interests of the middle income strata of the United States at the expense of the rest of the world and, generally, poor people domestically. Again, this is old news. The mobilizations that once had a partial voice in our liberal democracy responded defensively rather than collaboratively to the New Right's attacks and the power of the right wing reaction combined with the competitive fragmentation of those liberal, not leftist, mobilizations got the country Clinton and Obama... Dem's who denigrated but nevertheless assuaged the increasingly institutionalized and DC-focused once-liberal once-mobilizations. For the last time, this is old news. Your request for how to exactly achieve this goal serves as a means of keeping you from engaging in the practices of those actually trying to build it rather than determine, strategically, what it will be before it exists. Whether one agrees exactly with Carrol, this has been his point from the get go - get out there, do something, you can't presage how it'll go, be ready to fail, try again... it'll often suck but you'll feel better. The nicest, warmest, most satisfying interactions I've had with strangers (other than a very few students) over the last three years pretty much all occurred during picketing. How 'bout you?