Hindsight

In December 1998 I wrote this comment as a response to a debate on the "fall of communism". It makes splendid reading now following the "fall of capitalism".

The ideology of historicist Marxist science fiction has now been superceeded by the historicist triumphialism of liberal capitalism as represented by the thought and work of thinkers like Francis Fukuyama. The increasingly strident and self righteous tone of the ideology of free markets and economic globalisation is as disturbing as the threat represented by any other doctrinaire world domination type of ideology such as communism, socialism, national socialism etc. People need to resist and question the assumptions being foisted on them now of the triumph and moral certitude of unbridled free marketism and the causal linkage being posited between political and intellectual freedom, and capitalism.