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your writing is getting better. And not just the parts I more or less agree with, like anarchism being popular is not necessarily a boon to anarchy.

My strong disagreement with you is in a topic that is a bit broader, death. You say

"If death, fascism, un-freedom, could win everything then the stakes were so much higher than I had ever allowed myself to realize."

I have to wonder at how you ever came to the conclusion that death is allied with power. In my reading, Fascists are the ones who want to live forever, that thousand year reich and all. Death is not a defeat, one isn't losing when one dies. More like one is giving back to the earth the energy and molecules one had been using while alive.
I'll say it again, wanting to live forever is a fascist position. Now, to be clear, I'm not calling wg a fascist. I'm merely trying to get at a conundrum of technocratic ideology, that human life is the apex of something and as such each individual human should be able to live forever. THIS is the "good" stuck in many people's heads, an assumption that is in reality doing the opposite, killing the biosphere with which we are interdependent. The transformation of Earth into an exclusively human world is a fascist project. Death is not allied with that project.