the moral and ontological primacy of money in capitalist civilization has valorized a particular conception of “progress” that was, in their view, humanly and ecologically destructive despite all the material benefits it has conferred. (Even Marx succumbed to it.) Yet they did not call for the restoration of earlier social orders, nor did they believe that hammers and hoes would exhaust the technical possibilities of a world after capitalism. Their example suggests not that we should resurrect the past, but that we need to revisit what we mean by “progress,” and not change the subject by
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