Resource RadicalsIn 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the twenty first century socialist government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one