excellent article about the present crisis, an excoriation of revolutionary pessimists, and the transformations already underway https://illwilleditions.com/seven-theses-on-destitution/
the original end notes piece is worth your attention as well https://endnotes.org.uk/other_texts/en/endnotes-onward-barbarians
"If statues are the dead symbols of the state, police are its living ones, and this is especially true in an era of austerity and a deadly pandemic. Since the state has proven itself incapable of protecting the population from a many-headed crisis, it becomes clear that its primary role will be to contain the fallout of these crises by disciplining the population. That is, the state is being reduced to its policing function."