equinox (horsemouth makes it to the weekend)

equinox 09.37 

horsemouth is just days off his first jab (hopefully - it would be a shame if they ran out of jabs before they'd vaccinated your humble correspondent). it is one of two remember horsemouth and the full benefit of it takes about 10 days to kick in - and then there are the inevitable new variants it is less good against.

work monday and friday (nothing tuesday allegedly). meeeting of the communal endeavour monday evening. next week a walk with tim goldie. week after a walk of some description with enza. 

arguably the commune has made its fatal mistake (on this day in 1871), it has not pursued the regular army to versailles to disarm them and disrupt the plans the generals and politicians are hatching against paris. marx and engels experience the commune as the glorious confirmation of their theories

horsemouth listened to david runciman's podcasts (in history of ideas) one on rosa luxemburg and the other on carl schmitt. this is horsemouth's problem he likes the luxemburgist line (internationalism, democracy, halt the wars, let the revolution and the people teach you) but he suspects that lenin is right (if you don't want to die and have everyone you know die seize power and be inflexibly opportunist). 

the schmitt (fucking nazi) he doesn't like at all. but he is right to call the contradiction at the heart of liberal democracy, its unstable character. 

hannah arendt repeats an interesting point in on violence that franz borkenau made following the spanish civil war. that with the new weapons of war the revolution stands little chance against the overwhelming violence its opponents can bring to bear. and at this point horsemouth says yes - look at syria, yemen etc. he thinks the time of revolutions is over and the time of communes (of which paris was the first) may be over also.

on the other hand capitalism is driven here and there by its contradictions, the world is delivered up to it with such a thoroughness so that no part may escape its collective fate. the argument for the necessity of the better world grows ever stronger. change (for the better) is still possible. 

today enza goes to catastro/fille's to film a video for one of her songs (most excellent).

horsemouth will continue to shuffle around and do a bit of reading. at some point he will have to replenish his stocks of food (he's getting thoroughly sick of pasta, fakemeat, beans and onions). the virus doesn't take away the option or desire to go entertainment shopping (horsemouth is bored so he goes to buy food/ books) but it does help dis-incentivise it. 

focus are at the castle rehearsing, cheese, tank tops, chess and knitting (what more could you want?).