Denigration & Dispossession
Breaking with my dependence on Marxist language and theory by jettisoning the sorry Marxist concept and turn of phrase “primitive accumulation” and, instead, thinking with and through the phrase and concept of “accumulation by denigration and dispossession”.
For the Ancestors
The progressive capitalist says it is imperative that we reduce the dead to the eliminated in order to accelerate and innovate, but the fact is this: all liberating social transformations involve taking time to commune with the dead.
A revolution that does not liberate the dead from oppressive forces cannot liberate the living from oppressive forces.
Putting the Pandemic in Context
In the midst of a planetary ecocide, the most outrageously brutal historical tragedy is beginning to replay itself as the most outrageously brutal historical farce.