ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses three key considerations. The first is what is meant by the impossibility of society? To claim the impossibility of something that has been given the status of an axiom, not just in social theory but across the social sciences, is a controversial claim, at the very least. To get a better understanding of what is meant by the claim and its validity requires addressing what is meant by the possibility of society. The chapter expresses that there is a contingent relationship between impossibility and possibility, and the product of this relation is the very basis for the final consideration: What is meant by a sociology of postmarxism? Aspiration can change practices as well as beliefs because it can act as a feature of discourse. The product of this movement and subsequent relation are the very basis for a sociology of postmarxism.