Collective power requires releasing proprietary attachment to one’s own group suffering

Evidence

We are going to need each other. This means staying attuned to the possibility of a collective power, instead of attached to a proprietary pain. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1082

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘proprietary pain’ as a central concept of the chapter — the possessive sense of one’s own group victimhood.
• XREF: connects to: Digital voluntary communities can produce collective goods unmet by states and markets. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 188