> Marx […] did imagine what a day without capitalism and the division of labor would look like—a day when people could d...

> Marx […] did imagine what a day without capitalism and the division of labor would look like—a day when people could do whatever they wanted. You could, Marx mused, “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner.” […]> It’s no surprise, then, that the D.S.A.’s 2026 platform also asks Americans to imagine a day off in a world without capitalism. “Maybe in the morning, you walk your kids to school, run errands, or go to a doctor’s appointment. In the afternoon, you might play a sport, practice a new skill, read, plan a trip. In the evening, you could meet up with friends or family and eat together, maybe go to the movies or down to the park.”> If all this sounds oddly familiar, that’s because it’s the kind of future that Elon Musk and Sam Altman like to talk about, a world of abundance in a planned economy in which poverty has been eliminated and wage labor curtailed. In the twenty-first century, the belief that socialism is destiny has ...