Vincent Bevins talks about his remarkable book "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution" with Chris Hedges here.

One thing that we can notice in discussing activist movements, is that the examples that are often discussed - the end of apartheid, slavery, the civil rights movement, the home rule movement- were all eventually successful struggles.  What about the movements that didn't succeed?

I believe there is almost as much to learn from these counterexamples.  Chris Bevin's book is about movements that failed to achieve their initial aims, despite succeeding in bringing "people to the streets" in the 2010s. 

Incredibly important for anyone who would be part of a social movement to understand some of the things he talks about here. If you don't read the book, it's worth listening to other interviews with Bevins on this topic, because he has a lot to say that no single interview captures.