How can we change our society? These examples and proposals from yesterday and today will help us rethink work, property, and democracy.

For decades, we have been told that there is no alternative to the capitalist system and the society that stems from it, a society of competition, evaluation, profitability, and rejection. Now more than ever, we are living doubly dispossessed—alienated from our work, and disenfranchised from democratic decision-making processes. We are also experiencing a tragedy and an emergency: the plundering of the earth's resources. Is change possible? And if so, under what concrete economic and political conditions? How can we rediscover autonomy, cooperation, equality, solidarity, and true democracy?