C4SS Media presents Kevin Carson‘s “The Root is Power“, read by James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford.

“The central identifying feature of a reformist effort is that it fails to strike at the root of oppression — power. All such efforts aim either at changing individual behavior without regard to the individual’s position in the overall system of power, or at creating an authoritarian institutional framework staffed by upper-middle class “helping professionals” to protect the individual from oppressive behavior.”