momentous white working class ethnography about rationalisation, displacement, exploitation and the metabolic rift

but also about mutualism, love, solidarity, connection to land, people, cycles of life and death

an indictment of linear time for humane time, possessive individualism for communal regeneration

"This is the beginning--from I to we.

If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from "we.""

read with the conquest of bread