Out of over 40 years of experience in adult or worker education, David Greene brings us tools to develop consciousness and leadership for social change. Based on the power of our huge working class to understand this economic system and to organize, this book aims to empower educators, students and other workers with science applied to solving the serious social problems we face today. We are confronted with the issues of low-wage, part-time and temporary jobs, inadequate housing, health care, and transportation, inequality and injustice, at the same time as the greatest concentration of wealth in human history. The disparity of wealth and control has never been greater. The only way out of this deepening crisis is through education. To change this we need understanding that is based on the clearest reflection of the real world. Unfit to Be a Slave employs the tools of theory and informed practice, to guide us to create spaces to share experience, study history’s lessons and develop consciousness. As a collective and organized force we can transform our communities, our countries and our world. Mythologies that tell people, ‘Things don’t change,’ ‘We can’t do anything,’ or ‘It has always been this way,’ prevent poor and working class populations from taking necessary action on behalf of their own lives and families. Unfit to Be a Slave is meant to be a guide to education for social change.

デヴィッド・グリーンの「Unfit to Be a Slave」は、教育を社会変革の武器へと昇華させた革命的一冊です。40年の実践で得た哲学は、格差に喘ぐ我々に、現状を科学的に解体し再構築する知の力を授けます。本書の真髄は、「変わらない」という無力感の神話を打ち破る圧倒的な熱量にあります。 歴史の教訓と経験を交差させる叙述は、読者の意識を内側から揺さぶります。支配される存在から運命を切り拓く主体へ変貌するプロセスは、知的探求の極致です。混迷の今、自らの鎖を解き放つ「対話と連帯」の真理に触れるべき名著と言えるでしょう。