![]() ![]() So these are manifestations of power, but that’s power in the good sense power enables you to do things. And if we didn’t have access to the technologies through which to communicate between Chicago and here, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. ![]() If you didn’t have the power to get up this morning, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. To put it very bluntly, what power is, is the ability to make things happen, with access to the conditions of doing so. ![]() And it’s something that’s actually inherited from Elizabeth in England, and all the way back to Hobbes and those. But this is part of the neoliberal and of the neoconservative model. When we think about what oppression is, oppression is an effort to disempower a people, and this is a very crucial thing to think through, because we’re living in a period right now where people mistakenly look at power exclusively as coercion. ![]()
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