Fredric Jameson on Why Socialists Need Utopias

Marxist critic Fredric Jameson has spent his life’s work exploring the political significance of utopia. For Jacobin, Jameson argues that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is in fact possible.


Vladimir Lenin speaking to the workers of the Putilov factory in Petrograd, 1917. Painting by Isaak Brodsky (1883–1939). National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. (Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

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