Uncertainties, aporia, scepticisms and the shifting incompleteness to which they lead - the negative space of thought -should constitute collective politics alongside affirmations and suggestions.

Positive theology speaks claims about the divine - that God is Father, love, beauty, good. This, the via positivia, the positive way, is called cataphatic, from the Greek for 'affirmation'.

the discourse o f the limits of words, of what is not and cannot be said. Its name comes from the Greek term meaning 'negation' or 'denial'. It is called apophasis.

According to this via negativa, God is ineffable, so far beyond quotidian language as to be incommunicable. All that can be said, in the negative way is what the telos of its concern is not

And it is afraid, too, of the vatic and exhortatory.

There are those for whom such apophatic Marxist eschatology is dereliction.

a fullness, pleroma, redemption and justice we sense but can't quite articulate

from a systematic approach to the numinous, this bleaker apophasis follows

it is sacralisation, rather than an always-already failing linguistic striving in, and for the limning of, social hell

Marxist convergence with the negative theology of hell, as well as of Heaven, is not Manichean: it is apophatic precisely in that it abjures any secularised symmetry of Good and Evil, for social totality.