The Hellenic ideal of freedom - an ideal confined to the citizen -­ was different. Freedom existed for activity, not from activity. It was not a realm but a practice-the practice of being free by participating in free institutions, by daily recreating, elaborating, and fostering the activity of being free. One was not merely "free" in the passive sense of freedom from constraint, but in the active sense of "freeing," both of oneself and one's fellow citizens. An authentic community is not merely a structural constellation of human beings but rather the practice of communizing. Hence, freedom in the polis was a constellation of relationships that was continually in the process of reproduction. Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom, p.263