There's a popular Fredric Jameson line that's always needled me: "It has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." I just pinned down why it's so irritating to me. 1/3
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It's easy to imagine the end of the world in specific ways; they follow obviously from smaller disasters we have known, and correctly dread. To one not hypnotized by late Marxism, the end of capitalism is another such horror, and indeed *one we have seen many times*. 2/3
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It is difficult to imagine an end of capitalism _that is not a catastrophe_ -- for much the same reason we don't imagine an end to love, or food, or time. What would a *good* end of capitalism look like? What would a good end to humanity look like? 3/3
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Star Trek. The Culture. And other such works of fiction. Easy to imagine, impossible to achieve. Written by leftists.
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The Culture actually makes sense. The society really consists of the Culture minds and the humanoids are their pets.
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