The fact that we’re in a multitude of crises should be, from a distant perspective, reassuring. The worst case scenario would be the opposite: for business as usual to continue while everyone is ground into fine dust by capital. Think about how liberals and fascists like to conceive of history as a neverending, hopeless cycle that is only alleviated by individual heroic figures, doomed to go back into suffering: in this worldview, which is inherently pessimistic, change can never happen. What sets us apart is believing that, even if it comes violently, real change can happen and the world can be radically different. The fact that the machine is currently seizing up means the future is possible. Our challenge is that we’re living through it, but it had to happen; the capitalist world always had its end baked into it by its very structure. The variable part is what follows.