Socialism emerges within capitalism as existing structures rather than an ideal

Evidence

The force of Marxism as such, as Marx himself projected it, was to have combined an argument about the desirability of socialism (and the intolerability of capitalism) with a demonstration of the ways in which socialism was already coming into being within capitalism, in which capitalism by some features of its logic was already creating the structures of socialism, and in which socialism is not staged as an ideal or a Utopia but a tendential and emergent set of already existing structures. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 466

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the core distinction between utopian/ethical socialism (an unrealizable ideal) and Marxist socialism (an emergent structure already forming inside capitalism) — exactly the conceptual apparatus the reader needs.
• SEED: An essay angle: apply this distinction to contemporary tech culture — are AI-alignment or post-capitalist projects staged as ethical ideals (thus doomed) or as emergent structures?
• XREF: connects to: Guild socialism had to survive inside capitalist markets it sought to replace