A common anticapitalist refrain is, “another world is possible.” That statement is partially about the possibility of systemic change, a possibility that is often dismissed as utopian. But more broadly, it speaks to the colonization of the political imagination—the inability to see how the injustices of the past and present might be rectified in a possible future, given the scale and totality of the former. To (perhaps apocryphally) paraphrase Frederic Jameson, it’s as if it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
Other Possible Worlds
Other Possible Worlds
Other Possible Worlds
A common anticapitalist refrain is, “another world is possible.” That statement is partially about the possibility of systemic change, a possibility that is often dismissed as utopian. But more broadly, it speaks to the colonization of the political imagination—the inability to see how the injustices of the past and present might be rectified in a possible future, given the scale and totality of the former. To (perhaps apocryphally) paraphrase Frederic Jameson, it’s as if it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.