There's a long tradition of euphemizing anarchism as spiritualist, Romantic, quietist, or defeatist, etc. I'm fascinated by how Jameson will say "anarchism" then in the revised publication "quietistic" then "religious" & finally "anti-political."
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It could be a statement about the nature of the world or just the limits of human imagination Anytime someone starts telling a story about how "everyone in this society is just nice to each other and there's no oppression" it feels fake, we don't buy it, it's irrelevant to us
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"Those who walk away" are only seen on the road, never at their destination It's her own dig at herself, the notorious difficulty of trying to actually describe a world without governments, without property, without police, without violence
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I agree, but I think there's one other reason people tell stories about utopias… Because they believe in them & will do horrifying things to bring them into the world & force them on all of us. If we could achieve paradise eternal here & now, what crimes wouldn't we do for it?
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