Kelvin Flats, Hillsborough, 1987, via Tower Block project Is a socialist luxury possible? The fact that this question keeps coming up on social media seemingly twice a week, in new and ever more confused guises, suggests both that there’s a kernel of genuine and necessary investment there—a knotted complex of problems around socialised need, desire, and the relationship between existing social forms and their dissolution in any far-reaching social transformation—and that it’s the wrong question to ask. I won’t go into the latest instance of it on Twitter (except perhaps to link
god i was hoping beyond hope that you’d weigh in on this and, as i imagined, you’ve articulated it all so perfectly.