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“Our Grief is a Starting Point in the Fight Against Fascism” is written in the somber tone that sounds a lot like resignation, but it's actually intended to be about "mourning the dead and fighting like hell for the living". And by "fighting like hell" what is meant is, of course, organizing. The essay mourns the loss of traditions around grief. In other words, it's mourning about mourning.

We must organize everything for everyone, as
mutual aid against the disasters that are battering us
from all sides.We must organize forms of care and
dignity that defy commodification, containment, or
social control. That is, all that we can prefigure,
empathetically and materially, to remain steadfastly
side by side with each other
, even or especially if the
worst should occur. We must organize all that we love.
Mourning and organizing—not as separate
moments, but as an intimate and tender dance. The
voluntary conjoining of the two as a renewed promise
of social love in how we go about experimenting, in
the here and now, with forms of freedom against
forms of fascism.” [emphasis added]

Listen to the drone...we must organize, we must organize, we must organize...
mourning and organizing, mourning and organizing, mourning and organizing...
All in the name of a promise of delayed aggregated affect, "social love". Bolted steadfastly to a predestination delineated by "prefiguration", bodily movement encumbered by each other, like conjoined twins.