There is a common expression: “It is 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 man-made system of the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine transforming it into something better. Let's explore the idea of capitalist realism.
Why it is so difficult to imagine life after capitalism – Second thought
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Quotes and further reading:
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism and Communist Realism
https://books.google.com/books?id75YnlcDv6ToC&newbks1&newbks_redir0&printsecfrontcover
http://k-punk.org/communist-realism/
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
The capitalist gaze (and the quote from The Usual Suspects)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/discourse.35.1.0003
Quote from Tony Blair
https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/europe-et-international/activites-parlementaires-internationales/l-international-al-assemblee-nationale/receptions-dans-l-hemicycle-de-chefs-d-etat- and-of-government/folder/tony-blair
Quote from Pete Buttigieg
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual aid, a factor of evolution
https://books.google.com/books?iduDAaAAAAYAAJ&newbks1&newbks_redir0&printsecfrontcover
Slavoj Zizek, The relevance of the Communist Manifesto
https://books.google.com/books?idpsaKDwAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover
https://youtu.be/OpW2t_RFgQw
Quote from Alain Badiou
https://www.lacan.com/badiou-on-evil.htm
Learn more about capitalist realism
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/reading-capitalist-realism-ten-years-on/
https://youtu.be/6Cb5XJH4NMI
https://diadelics.medium.com/fishers-business-ontology-and-the-appeal-of-donald-trump-9054a00bf379
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