ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at exploring subaltern democracy. It looks most closely at those who live at the very edges and outside of market-based societies: workers who live in subsistence economies or swidden hunting and gathering economies and are not paid in wages or salaries, or workers who earn some income from wage work but also draw for a significant portion of their survival on other resources. It emphasizes of the importance of the different terms by which subaltern community members see the world in comparison with the ways that those with a high school or university education see the world. The chapter also introduces several tactics for avoiding and parodying the calculations of the Eurocentric modern, while also discussing some modes of organizing that work to claim state resources and achieve state accountability. It shows that egalitarian communities and movements operate in circumstances and histories where equality is possible because it has already been practiced historically.
