Die Macht der Machtlosen

The greatest improvements in the world are thanks to unknown individuals – it's time to get to know them! Who achieved the significant advancements in our world? Not the princes, presidents, and philosophers. It was ordinary people. They laid the groundwork "from the bottom up" for the abolition of slavery, the end of the feudal system, and the oppression of women. Loel Zwecker tells the story of the first activists to the present day and gives a voice to the nameless: a tribute to the power of the powerless! The major positive societal changes in our world are owed to determined individuals and networkers who have been forgotten by history. Unjustly so. Benjamin Lay was the first to use empathy as a political tool to highlight the untenability of slavery to his community members. Mother Jones organized a media-savvy "crusade" against child labor and challenged John Rockefeller. Wat Tyler demanded the abolition of class distinctions in England and the redistribution of great wealth as early as the Middle Ages. Catharina Linck, a button maker from Halle, loved women, broke gender roles, and advocated for more diversity in sexual orientation. Loel Zwecker brings her and other moving stories out of obscurity. He recounts their often ingenious actions, strategies, and methods that led to sustainable change. Surprising, relevant, and inspiring, it offers a clever and exciting look into the past as empowerment for the future.