tomorrow the equinox (paris commune II)

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) from SeriousFeather on Vimeo.

horsemouth doesn't have a copy of the civil war in france to hand instead he has 40 or so pages in a wishart marx/engels selected works (volume one) and 30 pages in the viking library  portable karl marx. 

to be honest he may have a copy of it (he remembers having a copy of it)  but it may be lost in the stacks somewhere in his room or hidden at his parents (where he was) to be read at a later date. it could even be upstairs in the living room hidden on the shelves there.

'the direct antithesis of the empire was the commune'  

the main lesson horsemouth wishes to impart is that the paris commune came out of a moment in history one that combined not only a large and militant working class in the city of paris (and a few of the larger cities lyon, marseille) but a ruling class in the nation as a whole that had embarked upon a disastrous war with the germans, lost that war,  and now needed to get the working class to pay the reparations for it and the costs of rebuilding. 

'yes gentlemen, the commune intended to abolish that class-property which makes the labour of the many the wealth of the few'  

and now we are at another moment in history when the ruling class needs to get the working class to pay the cost of another  crisis. before they would only have had to get the cost of brexit paid, now they have to get the greater costs of covid paid and eventually they will have to get the costs of the climate crisis paid if they are going to be able to keep on taking their cut. 

horsemouth doesn't forsee canons, militias and la semaine sanglante, but he does forsee trouble. 

sun is shining (weather is sweet). sten is off to get jabbed. the other two are done already. horsemouth is getting done wednesday. 

horsemouth works this afternoon. thereafter it is the weekend. tomorrow (9.37 am) the equinox. if in fact it was not yesterday this far north. he should check on howard. 

he did some reading also about maya deren and watched meshes in the afternoon which positions her work close to jean cocteau. 'new relations between the perceiving eye and the power of light' are proposed. he watched more zatoichi. he checked for his pay (remembering that it sometimes appears the day before payday (official)). 

yay they've paid him! his rent only (effectively) but nonetheless it enables horsemouth to maintain his library and himself in a comfortable state. 

possibly the last week of work next week (after that summer boredom). 

it will be difficult to get away this year.