Many are quick to identify structural faults in our current systems, but few manage to advance a novel alternative. David Bollier makes a case for the insurgent potential of the commons for re-imagining the capitalist political economy, state power, our social relations and hierarchies, our relations with the Earth, and our inner lives.

It's fair to say that so many grand narratives of our time – about citizenship, freedom, property rights, economic growth, and theories of value – have been called into question these days. Existing institutions and categories of thought aren't working so well.