What is called “love” by the best thinkers who have approached the subject is the beating heart of communism. The love that we have been theorizing tends toward communism in every meaningful way, even if only in miniature. The love that we have been theorizing, which is neither a commodity nor a private property nor a corrupt “love” of only one’s self or one’s “own kind,” tends toward a humanizing sociality, toward the *Gemeinwesen* in and against a world of alienation. If we would speak of a politics of love, we would have to speak of a politics of insurgency against the order of exchange.

―Richard Gilman-Opalsky,
The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value
2020