Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content

Evidence

It not only that a cultural object can be opposed to capitalism on the level of content, but serve it on the level of form; one could convincingly go further and argue that the ideology of capitalism is now “anti-capitalist”. The villain in Hollywood films is routinely the “evil multinational corporation”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 582

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61; Anti-capitalist films can end up affirming capital’s own fantasies — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 583; Capitalism tends toward monopoly and is therefore anti-market — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1721 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted #epitomizes (0.90) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468
• Anti-state rhetoric across the spectrum now sustains capitalist realism #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1580
• Neoliberalism extinguishes the political subject that critiques of capitalism presupposed #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 218
• Corporate anti-capitalist satire reinforces rather than undermines capitalist realism #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 29
• Capitalism absorbed its critics’ language to legitimize neoliberal privatization #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 439
• Capitalism tends toward monopoly and is therefore anti-market #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1721
• Total universalization of capitalism erases the concept of the system itself #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 865