Love: a counterpower to capital worthy of its name
Author In The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (AK Press, 2020), I define love as an activity, as something we do, not something we get or give like a commodity. We practice love as an active form of human relations that is not governed by money. Love is not a capitalist exchange relation. It is our active participation in the various “becomings” of other people, such as in the ways we participate in our children’s, friends’ or partners’ becoming what they are able, and would like to become, but not yet are. Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s “The Commun...
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