Capitalist conditions can distort resistance into fascist and survivalist forms

Evidence

Resistance doesn’t necessarily take the “logical” form of collective activism (unions, left-wing politics); it can be so distorted and imaginatively impoverished by the conditions of capitalism itself, that it express itself as, say, the proto-fascist, anti-corporate nostalgia of America’s right-wing militias, or as a sort of hyper-individualistic survivalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1538

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Fisher’s running claim that class anger without an outlet curdles into reaction — echoes ch80 on Sleaford Mods’ intransitive anger and the far-right nostalgia in ch20. — connects to: Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 468; Progress under capitalism turns into regression and fascism — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 25; Capitalists collaborate through finance because they feel threatened by resistance — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 501 (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A compressed statement of how the imagined impoverishment of the oppressed produces not the ‘logical’ collective politics but deformed expressions — dense and quietly paradigm-relevant to understanding why right-wing populism recruits the exploited.

Broader Connections

• Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted #expands (0.85) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468
• Progress under capitalism turns into regression and fascism #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 25
• A degraded working class can turn equally to fascism or communism #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1373
• Capitalists collaborate through finance because they feel threatened by resistance #corroborates (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 501
• Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24
• Neoliberal capital profits by commodifying resistance itself #complicates (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 531
• Survival-of-the-fittest ideology collapses when ruling security is threatened #expands (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474