Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism
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There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually changing it into something better. Let's explore the idea of capitalist realism.
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Citations and Further Reading:
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism and Communist Realism
https://books.google.com/books?id=75Y...
http://k-punk.org/communist-realism/
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist...
The Capitalist Gaze (and The Usual Suspects quote)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110...
Tony Blair’s quote
https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/e...
Pete Buttigieg’s quote
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/pete-butt...
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution
https://books.google.com/books?id=uDA...
Slavoj Zizek, The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
https://books.google.com/books?id=psa...
• Slavoj Žižek: The Relevance of The Co...
Alain Badiou quote
https://www.lacan.com/badiou-on-evil.htm
More on capitalist realism
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/r...
• Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism and B...
/ fishers-business-ontology-and-the-appeal-o...
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