Is There a Future for Socialism?
We all wondered, as we watched Back to the Future, how alternative futures could change the whole universe while Marty McFly stayed the same.
They say history repeats itself
But history is only his story
You haven’t heard my story
My story is different than his story
My story is a mystery
My story is not a part of history
We all wondered, as we watched Back to the Future, how alternative futures could change the whole universe while Marty McFly stayed the same. Those movies amounted to a Reaganite philosophy of history: the short-circuit between the fifties and the eighties which converts every contingent encounter into one reactionary loop, centered on the white man who secretly invents rock ‘n’ roll, seduces his mother, and conquers the space-time continuum.
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