# Quote — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

> This matter of periodization is not , however, altogether alien to the signals given off by the expression "late capitalism," which is by now clearly identified as a kind of leftist logo which is ideologically and politically booby-trapped, so that the very act of using it constitutes tacit agreement about a whole range of essentially Marxian social and economic propositions the other side may be far from wanting to endorse. Capitalist was itself always a funny word in this sense: just using the word - otherwise a neutral enough designation for an economic social system on whose properties all sides agree - seemed to position you in a vaguely critical suspicious, if not outright socialist stance: only committed right wing ideologues and full-throated apologists also use it with the same relish.

- Author: [Fredric Jameson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-jameson.md)
- Book: [Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-jameson/postmodernism-or-the-cultural-logic-of-late-capitalism.md)
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