Anti-capitalist struggle fails when it abandons electoral and hegemonic politics entirely.

Evidence

Again, the neo-anarchist idea that the state is finished, that we do not need to participate in it at all, is deeply pernicious. It is not that parliamentary politics will achieve much on its own — the object lesson of what happens if you believe that to be the case was New Labour. Power without hegemony — that is effectively what New Labour was. But that is pointless. You cannot hope to achieve anything through an electoral machine alone. But it is hard to see how struggles can succeed without being part of an ensemble. We have to win back the idea that it is about winning the hegemonic struggle in society on different fronts at the same time. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1682

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘power without hegemony’ as the distinctive failure of New Labour.
• XREF: connects to: Street-based anti-capitalist protest fails because it abandons the workplace where politics meets daily life. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1683; Universal anti-capitalist discontent stays inert without an organizing agent. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1645

Broader Connections

• Universal anti-capitalist discontent stays inert without an organizing agent. #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1645