"Is the thought of a noncapitalist utopia even possible after Stalinism, after decades of anticommunist polemic on the part of brilliant and morally engaged intellectuals? Or are we all convinced, in a politically paralyzing way, that Margaret Thatcher had it right when she crowed that 'there is no alternative' to free-market capitalism?"

"Back to utopia: Can the antidote to today's neoliberal triumphalism be found in the pages of far-out science fiction?" by Joshua Glenn, from The Boston Globe via boston.com.