Varoufakis’s father hoped capitalism would end by spreading commons-based socialist islands.

Evidence

Every now and then, feeling he could guiltlessly leave to me the exploration of capitalism’s mysteries while he relished the unalloyed joys of archaeometry, he would speculate on how capitalism might, one day, end – and what would replace it. His wish was that it would not die with a bang, because bangs had a tendency to cull good people in awful numbers; that instead socialist islands might spring up spontaneously in our vast capitalist archipelago and that they would expand gradually, eventually forming whole continents on which technologically advanced commons would prevail. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 110

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘socialist islands forming continents’ image offers a hopeful counterpoint to technofeudalism for an essay on post-capitalist commons.
• FICTION: The archipelago-of-socialist-islands gradually coalescing into continents is a usable speculative world-building image.
• XREF: Connects to reader’s knowledge of commons-based production and degrowth/pluriverse literatures on post-capitalist experimentation.