Madelyn Elizondo

poesis

What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, “I am going to produce a work of art.” I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to... See more

Using love as a social tool, we resist the precarity forced upon us by an exploitative, violent, profit driven social structure. A revolutionary love ethic embodies our social values and radical critique as an organizing principle for material political demands. A commitment to connection, compassion, dignity, and relationship over profit,... See more

The Communism of Love

bell hooks speaks of a “love ethic” which opposes domination and coercion by insisting respect for and a commitment to the well-being of others.

Wherever domination is present, love is lacking ... Love can never take root in a relationship based on domination and coercion. There can be no love where there is domination.[

Sandor Ferenczi writes that “our real aim in life is to be loved, and that any other observable activity is really a detour, an indirect path towards that goal.”

“To have faith in the possibility of love as a social,

and not only exceptional individual phenomenon

is a rational faith based on the insight into the very nature of man.”

— Eric Fromm