Meaningful political change requires collaboration beyond individual and identity-group effort

Evidence

Mariame Kaba, a longtime prison abolitionist who has done as much as anyone to imagine what it would take to live in a world that does not equate safety with police and cages, puts the lesson succinctly, one passed on to her by her father: “Everything worthwhile is done with other people.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1075

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kaba’s abolitionist framework and the broader tradition of mutual aid organizing; resonates with the ‘creative minority’ framing from A Midwife’s Tale-era community studies. — connects to: Environmental politics needs a third path between local experiments and macro-association — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 349; Building inward-facing social ties is a prerequisite for later outward political action — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1437; Participatory democracy politics of the self displaced social structural politics — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 468 (+1 more)