ABSTRACT
This final short chapter concludes the central argument of the book. Echoing what Jacques Derrida had said in his Specters of Marx, this Coda reiterates that there is no future without Marx. Making a leap of faith, it comes to claims that: there is also no future for the theory of critique in architecture without Marx. It argues that the architecture academy must stop conjuring away the specter of Marx. This conclusion brings to an end what the book started with, that is, by upholding the so-called ‘Proletarian Enlightenment’—recalling Fredric Jameson’s phrase—and invoking French Revolution’s ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’, it echoes Marx’s insight in Capital that in the capitalist system, in the sphere of buying and selling labor power, the moment that a ‘free’ contract between a capitalist and a worker is concluded, ‘is in fact a very Eden of the innate rights of man. It is the exclusive realm of Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham’.
