“spells of contagious self-reclamation…”

“… to borrow the phrase my friend Alley Valkyrie is fond of using about every apparent “contradiction” within liberal democracy: “it’s not a bug — it’s a feature.” In other words, the problems that seem to keep the capitalist liberal order from making good on its claims can never be resolved, because it needs to create them in order to exist.”

What I'm inviting is for us to take our psyches and our power back from derangement and doom.

It’s not late, but the gloom of the late afternoon deepens. The morning star, or rather the evening star, Venus, is like a diamond shining bright, rising in the deepening darkness of the sky, even as the horizon is splashed with a fabulous orange light.

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I am inspired by the example of those early socialists, descendants of revolutionary Romanticism, who saw no absolute divide between the struggle for a socialist society and contiguous efforts to heal the wound of human alienation from nature.

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