I enjoyed this too -- the ex-mas celebration seems wonderful. Also love: "Freedom From Want, a painting intended to remind us of the plenty in our lives, has come instead to function as a reminder of what we lack, an unachievable ideal of comity and togetherness. Truly it was an illusion all along."

This issue includes a #ClassicsRevisited collection on Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism and beyond, including contributions by Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social, Anuja Bose, Sheetal Chhabria, Sharon Wright Austin, Kris F. Sealey, and H. L. T. Quan, w/ an introduction by Robyn Marasco.

And such an invocation of history makes it seem like we can all just kick back and watch things unfold towards their historically-sanctioned destiny.