Market defenders secretly fear the very Utopian totality they claim to celebrate

Evidence

But this solution — nothing in excess! — is in reality determined by the phantasm of an alternate “radical” one, namely, Plato, or the puritanical suppression of images altogether (her concrete example of this is Maoist China). I suspect that this kind of deep-seated fear — what I have elsewhere called the “anxiety of Utopia” — is also at work in defenses of the market which fantasize the utter removal of consumption, images, and desire at the very moment when the socialist countries themselves are edging closer to all those things. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 468

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘anxiety of Utopia’ — that defenses of the market are secretly driven by a fear of desire’s totality — is a provocative reversal worth an essay: how pro-market rhetoric conceals an anti-consumption panic.
• XREF: connects to: Finance’s utopian promises contain the seed of their own subversion; The meritocratic promise of market society disguised its classist foundations. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1571; The market is as Utopian as socialism has been called — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 609 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Finance’s utopian promises contain the seed of their own subversion; The meritocratic promise of market society disguised its classist foundations. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1571; The market is as Utopian as socialism has been called — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 609 (+2 more)