Property, Power, and the Collective Creation of Freedom On the enclosure of collective life, the dismantling of the social contract, and the material conditions of emancipation I. The bargain was never between equals The social contract is in tatters. For generations, people were told that the existing political and economic
Social Work and the Architecture of Liberation From Maroon Communities to Radical Social Transformation I. Before There Was a Profession Before there were social workers, there were people who refused to abandon one another. Before there were professional codes of ethics, clinical assessments, diagnostic manuals, government grants, nonprofit organizations, and
There is a particular kind of grief that comes from knowing what is possible. Not imagining it. Not wishing for it. Knowing it. You hear it sometimes in music. You encounter it in a classroom when a child asks the question everyone else has learned not to ask. You see
Imagine a child growing up in an abusive home. The child does not control the mortgage. They do not make the rules. They cannot replace the parent. They cannot simply announce that the household will henceforth operate according to principles of mutual respect and participatory democracy. Their world is structurally
Perhaps we have been asking the wrong question. For a very long time, humans of the Western conceptual paradigm have tried to determine what things are. What is life? What is consciousness? What is the self? Where does one thing end and another begin? What separates organism from environment, human
The President of the United States has thrown entire news organizations out of the White House. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico have been barred from White House grounds after Donald Trump accused them of spreading “fake news.” Their credentials were confiscated. They have sued. And something unusual happened afterward: the