As capitalism hollows out society, the potential grows for a revolutionary spark
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In his book Capitalist Realism, which proposes that capitalism and its ills have become viewed by our culture as immutable, Mark Fisher came to a conclusion about class struggle that echoed Lenin’s statement from What Is To Be Done: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Fisher wrote that “The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.” But how can we create such a fissure in the established order? How can we bring history towards a new reality?
As capitalism hollows out society, the potential grows for a revolutionary spark
As capitalism hollows out society, the…
As capitalism hollows out society, the potential grows for a revolutionary spark
In his book Capitalist Realism, which proposes that capitalism and its ills have become viewed by our culture as immutable, Mark Fisher came to a conclusion about class struggle that echoed Lenin’s statement from What Is To Be Done: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Fisher wrote that “The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.” But how can we create such a fissure in the established order? How can we bring history towards a new reality?