Capitalism is structurally always in crisis - this is why it is expanding all the time: it can only reproduce itself by way of ‘borrowing from the future’; by way of escaping into the future. The final settling of accounts when all debts would be paid cannot ever arrive. Marx had a name for the social point of impossibility: 'class struggle’. And, perhaps, one should extend this to the very definition ofhumanity: what ultimately distinguishes man from animal is not a positive feature (speech, tool-making, reflexive thinking, or whatever), but the rise of a new point of impossibility designated by Freud and Lacan as das Ding, the impossible-real ultimate reference point of desire.

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