Future social forms are present within the current system, not outside it

Evidence

To take only one feature of Lukacs’s analysis, processes of collectivization can today be observed to have replaced market individualism on a range of levels, all the way down to the microexperiences of daily life, something reflected in the “molecular politics” of the so-called new social movements. This model of the presence of the future within the present is then clearly quite different from the attempt to “step outside” actually existing reality into some other space: the workers of the commune, as Marx put it in perhaps his most incisive formulation, “have no ideals to realize but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant.” — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 466

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘presence of the future within the present’ directly analogizes to Jameson’s central claim that aesthetic form is the economy’s way of appearing — the same immanence structure. — connects to: Facebook constitutes an active prototype of instrumentarian society, not a future forecast — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1481
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the future is immanent within the present — not an ideal to reach but an emergent structure to release — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting way of thinking about historical change and political action.