“Socialism has typically been a nostalgic diatribe against underdeveloped capitalism, finding its eschatological soap-boxes amongst the relics of precapitalist territorialities.”

— Nick Land

"Machinic Desire" (1993), in Fanged Noumena, p. 340

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