I hate neo-liberalism too, man, but it's not the neo-libs fault that you can't travel faster than the speed of light, that interstellar space is inhospitable to life, and distances between stars are very, very large.https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1340824411100901376 …
Capitalist realism depends on convincing you that There Is No Alternative. The existence of socialist aliens would invalidate this. Thus capitalists do not want you to think about aliens. But I agree capitalism would be just as bad without aliens supplying additional proof
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This assumes that aliens could even be anything like socialist or capitalist -- the social relations of jellyfish, octopi or fungi have no bearing on that, and those are just on Earth. Aliens would be even *more* different. Marx didn't need to reference aliens.
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Even among *humans* there are social systems that don't really fit into the Marx (or Adam Smith) narrative so neatly. (Honestly, Marx was a little too enamored of the idea of progression from A to B as a linear upward trajectory)
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