I started a punk band, but we’re not doing too much composing at the moment — playing exclusively covers.

Thanks for disobeying Commissar
Milburn’s orders. We’re working on getting you to a safe location to ward of retaliations right now. Details to follow.

I agree that things are different now, and clearly there are always new possibilities. But I’m not keen on the idea that one of these new possibilities might be that now our kind of politics makes sense. That implies that they didn’t before.

I do think it’s more obvious to more people today, but that’s a different level of where the possibility is: that means “it’s easier to see today that this has always been the case”. That makes sense to me. I’d want to add, though, that some people have seen this for a long time (in a certain sense, women who fought the enclosures of their bodies and of the land saw something like this, even if they didn’t use the terms we use). I think that’s important to me because I want to retain a way to dis the Leninists, to say that their politics were the politics of a privileged sector (and are nowadays even worse, the politics of a museum of a previously privileged sector). Or something like that.
take care,
Nate

But having said that, isn’t it true that there are times and places when composition is more possible/attractive precisely because it resonates? I like the idea of a wrinkle in time because explains why we are (wrinkly) punks, Diggers, etc. and expands this vague idea of resonance (wave forms?). Time doesn’t travel in a straight line so that’s how we are able to be one with movements that apparently died hundreds of years ago. I remember arguing with a Left communist who was adamant that communism just wasn’t possible until the 19th century (communism = soviets plus electricity). That’s obviously nonsense: our flight from capital is ongoing and has always been so. But maybe the move to real subsumption has opened up new possibilities (communism = soviets plus broadband): it’s more obvious now that capital depends on our humanity, not just labour-power, as the Midnight Notes nebula idea suggests. Our ‘resistance’ is about our life rather than ‘just’ wage demands etc.