An interview/conversation conducted during the summer of 2020. Lots of great insight from Kali about the role that solidarity economy theory and politics might play in a broader Build and Fight, liberatory politics. The abstract is pasted below and the article is open access through the Rethinking Marxism journal website, as well as on the Community Economies Collective website

In this expansive interview, Kali Akuno explores the current political-cultural conjuncture in the United States. Thinking through the responses to the pandemic and the Floyd Rebellion, Akuno analyzes the violence of and tensions between an escalating white supremacy, on one hand, and an intractable (neo)liberalism that is attempting to capture and channel the energies and ideas of the Left, on the other. Akuno locates direction for the Left amid the flourishing of mutual-aid projects and the possibility of a politicized solidarity-economy movement that can fight for and build practices, relationships, and institutions beyond the limitations of the market, the state, and what is deemed to be practical.