szmoldest

We know today that any emancipatory politics must abandon the model of the party, or parties, and affirm itself as a politics "of no party," but without also falling back on anarchism, which has only ever been the vain critique, or the double, or the shadow of the communist parties, like the black flag is the double or shadow of the red flag.

Everyone agreed that this was how to proceed. The audience can’t be mistaken about whom to love, whom to pity, whom to despise. But must showing one’s essence mean exaggerating the signs by which we recognize it. If one could have the courage to be not quite so pointed from the beginning, wouldn’t that be finer, truer? More fascinating? Every night, as she went on stage Maryna promised herself, I will hold something back. I will not be entirely legible. More variance, she bid herself, even at the risk of being confusing. More smolder.