when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of… — Rebecca Solnit

Most of us would say, if asked, that we live in a capitalist society, but vast amounts of how we live our everyday lives - our interactions with and commitments to family lives, friendships, avocations, membership in social, spiritual and political organizations-are in essence noncapitalist or even anticapitalist, full of things we do for free, out of love, and on principle.

A better world, yes; a perfect world, never. (p82)

Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.