![Anti-Black Original Sin and the Unnarratable Catastrophe of Modernity](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/28295968326_402320ab5a_k-e1671122677161-600x450.jpg)
For Afropessimism, the World is the katechōn, rather than a particular institution within it. The language of the katechōn as the “restraining power” facilitates how the structure of anti-Blackness is not only a structure of domination and gratuitous violence, but also the foreclosure of a more radical mode of what Wilderson calls gratuitous freedom—which is precisely freedom from the World.
![Catholic Worker Anarchism at a Crossroads: The Difficulty of Addressing Anti-Blackness](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Featured-Image-Photo-by-Kelly-Lacy-from-Pexels-600x450.jpg)
As the Catholic Worker movement confronts anti-Black racism more earnestly, questions arise about whether taking an active anti-racism stance can be reconciled with Catholic Worker anarchism, specifically when dealing with the state.
By Lincoln Rice