# Quote — Russell Jacoby, The End Of Utopia

> Over the years and against conventional wisdom, utopians sustained a vision of life beyond the market. … Georg Lukács set forth a theory of the “old and new culture” in which he argued that the socialist economy was not the goal; it was simply a precondition for humanity to advance to a new and humane culture. Most radicals do not understand that political power and economic reorganization is not the end-all, stated Lukács. The goal is not a new economic order, but freedom from an obsession with economics.

- Author: [Russell Jacoby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-jacoby.md)
- Book: [The End Of Utopia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-jacoby/the-end-of-utopia.md)
- Page: 27
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> The disdain for culture expressed by Johst and Fanon is not identical, however. Both despise the deceit of culture, but for opposite reasons. For Johst, culture is in itself a fraud, the cheap talk of weaklings; for Fanon, culture deceives by reneging on its promises. Johst and the Nazis hated culture itself; Fanon hated its hypocrisy, a very different notion.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-jacoby/the-end-of-utopia/the-disdain-for.md)

> Endless discussions of multiculturalism proceed from the unsubstantiated assumption that numerous distinct “cultures” constitute American society. Only a few historians or observers even consider the possibility that the opposite may be true: that the world and the United States are relentlessly becoming more culturally uniform, not diverse.

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> Though the ancient world understood that work was a curse, modern industrial society spreads its gospel. The working class, Lafargue hopelessly hoped, must reject the work fetish.

p. 26 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-jacoby/the-end-of-utopia/though-the-ancient.md)