Leaving Brooklyn

The weather changes from late summer to winter overnight. Thoughts on gentrification and its manifestation in the old tabacco warehouses of Durham, North Carolina. A simple question: what is it one fears in abandoned stretches of America? Among the brick facade remains of manufacturing has been built the economic engines of consumption and real estate speculation. In The Book Lady of Savannah, a spine opens to Eugene Debs' Sound Socialist Tactics, a 1913 essay. Force. Again, force. Revolutionary and reactionary fissures in Socialism. How to contend with property rights that by any measure should be "held in contempt".