ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the implications of the fracturing of the global horizon of capital for the theoretical articulations of radical alternatives, most centrally communism. It focuses on the vexed one of the utopian. The form of default utopiamsm is the search for some point, or enclave, of resistance to capital that already embodies communism, or the potential of communism. The ideological trope of the contemporary moment is to use the 'utopian' nature of capitalism as the means to run-together and criticize all utopian projects of planning. The moment of crisis, in which capitalism emerges as an insistent signifier requiring 'saving.' did not simply disable network and plural conceptions. Rather the failure of capitalism, its 'compacting' under crisis, could be taken to signal that it could no longer control or handle the pluralities of production and distribution on which it depended; hence the persistence and return of such modes after the current crisis.
