The uprisings that spread across the Middle East in 2011 seemed to be dead and buried, until a new wave of protests began in 2018. Gilbert Achcar is perhaps the leading Marxist analyst of these movements. His books The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (University of California Press, 2013) and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Stanford University Press, 2016) are essential reading for anyone who would understand the historical trajectory of the region over the past decade. Jeff Goodwin recently spoke with Achcar about recent developments and his views of the revolutionary process that began in 2011.