![]() ![]() It is a society in which people are prosperous: well-fed, well-clothed, well-housed, and well-entertained. It is a society in which people are free to do what they want, within reason of what is not destructive for the community. What is a Communist utopia? It is a society in which humans pull together and coordinate their activities. Trotsky says that History speaking through Marx and him knows how to build a Communist utopia. Trotsky’s gospel, it turns out, is in reality little more than a managerialist gospel. If you step back, however, and inquire into the content of the this-world secular ideologies of the Trotskys, it then becomes very difficult to prefer the prophetic Trotskys to the managerial Keyneses. Benedicts (more preferred), but in either event it is to be preferred to managerial Keyneses. ![]() It is Macintyre’s belief that we should hope for a civilization led by Trotskys (less preferred) or St. Alasdair Macintyre, at least in his After Virtue mode, believes that good civilizations are ones with moral consensus led by prophets, rather than ones with moral confusion managed by managers. ![]()
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