Anti-totalitarian fear today is anachronistic and blocks needed leftist orthodoxy

Evidence

Let me put it another way: I think we’re very far off leftist totalitarianism at the moment, and we’re too frightened of it as well. In the Sixties, Stalinism was a clear and present danger. Leftist totalitarianism was a real threat that people were trying to escape from. It simply isn’t now. It’s not that one should entirely dismiss those fears, but I think that we’re at the stage where we need to establish a new orthodoxy, a strong hegemonic presence, and once we’ve done that, then we can worry about the dangers of that being taken too far or totalitarianism, etc. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2179

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on Fisher’s broader post-Kapitalist Realism project of diagnosing ‘failed futures’ across other entries in this book.