Render unto Ourselves, What is Ours—or Caesar Will Seize It

The political purpose of antifascism in the 21st century is not to stop the Right. It’s to discipline the Left.

Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven’t come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.

Now what’s going to happen to us without b…