Tarso Genro, born in 1947, worked as a labour lawyer for twenty-five years and served twice as mayor of Porto Alegre. As a leading member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), he coordinated the political council of the Frente Popular between 1988 and 2001. After the presidential elections of October 2002, he was appointed Minister of State and head of the special secretariat of the new Economic and Social Development Council.

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The historic election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) as president of Brazil in October 2002 was a crucial stage in the development of a political project informed by the accumulated experience and thinking - tested in local and regional administration as well as earlier electoral defeats on the national stage - of a generation of Brazilian intellectuals and activists. Tarso Genro, former mayor of Porto Alegre and now head of the special secretariat of the new Economic and Social Development Council, maps this trajectory via a series of reflections on the problems and possibilities of a way of governing that is at once democratic, socialist, and popular.