"We have technical means such that everyone on the planet could have adequate food, water, shelter, clothing, health care and education. But we live in a feudal hierarchy that is not concerned with this project, but rather with feathering the nests of the rich and powerful, and be damned to everyone else. A course of history that leads away from this hierarchy toward a state of sustainable adequacy is utopian from its first step. Because of this, utopian courses of history can only be confirmed retroactively, but we can still work on them now"