Blairism internalized rather than overturned 1980s defeats.
Evidence
The illusion of Blairism is that it was an overcoming of the defeats of the 1980s rather than their final consequence. It was a post-traumatic normalisation of catastrophe, not any sort of new dawn. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1775
Categorization
- XREF: ‘Post-traumatic normalisation’ aligns with Fisher’s wider argument across this volume that New Labour represented capitulation to neoliberalism, connecting to his capitalist-realism thesis. — connects to: Blairism normalized the 1980s defeat rather than overcoming it; Blairism won elections while forgetting the party’s political purpose — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1850; Blairism won elections by sacrificing the party’s sense of purpose — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1850 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Blairism normalized the 1980s defeat rather than overcoming it
#corroborates(0.97) - Blairism won elections while forgetting the party’s political purpose
#qualifies(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1850 - Blairism won elections by sacrificing the party’s sense of purpose
#qualifies(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1850 - The 1980s felt like left-wing advance to participants, not defeat
#contradicts(0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1363 - Thatcher’s second term and the miners’ defeat concretised British capitalist realism
#expands(0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1362