Anderson Dawes is objectively correct in his motivations and strategies to obtain emancipation for the belters. Where as often the main cast of characters lose themselves in utopian idealism and the fantasy of the abandonment of factions and politics in the name of unity, Dawes is too well aware that the existence of factions and struggle is fundamental to liberation of the belt and the rest of the solar system. Dawes understands the processes and systems which lead to the development of a permanently exploited underclass and what they must do to free themselves. He also understands that the only way that the belters will ever be free is if the belters who work the machinery and mines which supply the system, are controlled by the belters themselves, and not a far away corporation on earth. This is a Stark contrast from the tendencies of those such as Holden or Johnson who believe that things can be fixed if the belt "shows goodwill" or if there were no factions at all.…