Ten years of investigating cults and spiritual abuse, morphing into a broader critique of the religion of capitalism, and the search for better religion.
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Left melancholy is an attachment to past political heroes, analyses, or defeats, freezing revolutionary desire in nostalgia. We must learn to mourn, live, theorize and act in present conditions.
Everyday communism says that even in our worst moments, we have an instinct for mutual aid. In fact, we can't get away from our impulse to share.
I wish you'd gone to therapy. Or maybe now, that you'd retire to the forest and be with your animals.
"Vance cares about family lineage, but he only sees it through imperial dominance. I care about lineage because I see it through the ways that feminism has kept us alive and committed to each other."
"The bribes are terrible. The bribe to not talk about Palestine is zero dollars. There's no extra money to be had by not talking about Palestine."
You created love, you created labour. Together they build something whole that no one should be allowed to chop up and sell off for parts.
"Communion is the Helter Skelter of a man morally deranged enough to publish a quiet book about coming to faith while the daily headlines show fresh blood on his hands."
It begins with your family, but soon it comes 'round to justice.
"We live on this planet to change it. We live on this planet to do good work. We don’t leave anyone behind."
How the erasure of anticapitalism converts structural politics into psychology, lifestyle, and hysteria.
