Revolution as being settles into daily infrastructures: worker cooperatives, community land trusts, credit unions, and neighborhood clinics. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid (1902) sketched this ethic; COVID-era mutual aid networks revived it at scale, delivering groceries, medicine, and solidarity when markets and states stumbled. Such institutions prefigure different property relations and care economies, proving that another way is not only imaginable but operable. And when enough people live these relations, a tipping point emerges where structures shift to match habits. In that sense, Le Guin’s line is instruction as much as epigram: stop shopping for change, stop scripting it for others—practice it until it is the way you live together. [...]
