A failed political future can still function as a haunting question.

Evidence

Haunt the dreams of your comrades, and the nightmares of your enemies; live in a future that never came—be a specter, a memory, and a herald. Remind them that the current state was not inevitable until it came to be. Do not occupy yourself with the question of why this very possible future failed, leave the victorious to grope for answers. Be the question, and do not heed your impotence. A ghost has no need for material presence or action, you just need to shimmer. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1037

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ghost/doubling language threaded through the whole book, and to Derrida’s specter/spectral politics which Klein engages. — connects to: Posing a question of the future risks immediately foreclosing that future.
• QUESTION: Is this Klein’s actual voice or a quote from someone she is channeling? The injunction-style writing reads like it might be a quotation she’s deploying.
• BMF: The injunction to ‘be a specter, a memory, and a herald’ of a future that never came evokes We (Zamyatin) insofar as that novel’s entire project is preserving a revolutionary future memory against a triumphant present state.