How Should We Understand an Anti-Capitalist Psychology of Community?

In this chapter, I outline what it is I mean by the terms “anti-capitalism” and “psychology of community”. Following this, I argue that because these two terms do not weld together in an easy union, an anti-capitalist psychology of community should be understood primarily in terms of its contradictions. It is these contradictions that render it a psychology of movement and becoming, rather than being and fixity. I attempt to showcase how conceiving of an anti-capitalist psychology of community through contradiction can attune such a psychology to the emancipatory demands of the moment. The chapter concludes with an outline of the book’s structure as well as a rationale for this structure.