Revolutionary Loserism

And did the Countenance Divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic Mills?

(From William Blake, “Jerusalem.”)

I was giving a talk on staggered collapse and the polycrisis under which our carbon-capitalism-colonialism (CaCaCo) world is ending, outlining what I saw as conditions for salvage communism in the ruins-to-come. When one comrade’s turn came to speak, he stood (or, I remember him standing) red-faced and cried accusingly, “But this is loserism!”