We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication.
See the bottom of today’s ‘stack for some news and updates, and also for some summary comments on my “reader survey” of two weeks ago. “Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in?” Juliet 1. Western Europeans and Americans visiting Romania for the first time will often be told that any association of the place with vampires is really an unfair imposition, having mostly to do with Bram Stoker’s more or less ex-nihilo invention of a Transylvanian setting for his 1897 novel,