"For there is no friend like a sister, In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands."

Rather than allow democratic reforms, elites may respond by embracing nationalist rhetoric, surveillance regimes, and militarized policing. This convergence of state and corporate power—what Mussolini referred to as corporatism—is widely regarded as the economic backbone of fascism.

The worker is called to choose between two paths: servitude under the industrial barons or rebellion and solidarity with his fellow workers.

The Earth is barreling toward an irreversible transformation. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, largely driven by human fossil fuel combustion, has surged past 424 parts per million—

Thus, the horror is not the wilderness. It is the way the white subject brings that wilderness with him—within his own assumptions, his own guilt, his own refusal to reckon with the full humanity of the people already there.