For the Comaroffs, capitalism at the end of the millennium is also millenarian capitalism. Globalization can be thought of as an economic process radically
addressing the nature of labour and provoking responses that highlight the occult or
spectral power of the global economy. Moreover, the nature of these responses is
dualist: it entails both the enchanted pursuit of wealth and the moralizing rejection of this pursuit by others as ‘satanic’. In this regard, globalization is a process with eschatological, indeed apocalyptic, dimensions. As the forces of Gog and Magog battle it out for the global space, the Comaroffs prophetically offer us a sense of this struggle’s inevitability. What is different from, say, the era of cargo cults is that, where these cults supposedly expressed the shock of the new on the imperial fringe and would eventually be swallowed by their own irrational absurdity, capitalist-inspired uncertainty is now everywhere and everywhere the cults of capitalism emphasize the role of unseen forces.