Solidarity is blocked when individuals fear the risk freedom demands.

Evidence

Moreover, their struggle for freedom threatens not only the oppressor, but also their own oppressed comrades who are fearful of still greater repression. When they discover within themselves the yearning to be free, they perceive that this yearning can be transformed into reality only when the same yearning is aroused in their comrades. But while dominated by the fear of freedom they refuse to appeal to others, or to listen to the appeals of others, or even to the appeals of their own conscience. They prefer gregariousness to authentic comradeship; they prefer the security of conformity with their state of unfreedom to the creative communion produced by freedom and even the very pursuit of freedom. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 111

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what concrete moves in a learning situation break the ‘security of conformity’ preference toward ‘creative communion’?