#replinish

Moreover, redomaining must be guided insofar as possible by the principle of ‘pay as you go’. Eschewing freeriding and ‘primitive accumulation’, socialism must ensure the sustainability of all the conditions of production, which capitalism has so callously trashed. In other words: a socialist society must undertake to replenish, repair, or replace all the wealth it uses up in production and reproduction. It must replenish care- and people-making work as well as work that produces use values or commodities. It must replace all the wealth it takes from ‘the outside’ – from peripheral peoples and societies as well as from nonhuman nature. It must replenish the political capacities and public goods it draws on in the course of meeting other needs. In other words: no free riding on matters relegated to a disavowed background. This proviso is a sine qua non for overcoming the intergenerational injustice endemic to capitalist society. Only by observing it can a socialism for the twenty-first century overcome capitalist irrationality and de-institutionalize its built-in proclivities to crisis.

Sleep

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.