Capitalist realism’s own totality makes small alternative experiments disproportionately powerful.

Evidence

The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 165

Categorization

• SEED: The open question of what the book’s own argument leaves unfinished — what concrete new organizations or tactics the sketched strategy needs — is a natural forward-looking essay prompt.
• XREF: connects to: Total ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful.; Capitalist realism is a pervasive atmosphere that constrains thinking itself, not just culture — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 35; Pervasive ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 165

Broader Connections

• Total ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful. #corroborates (0.98)
• Pervasive ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 165
• Capitalist realism is a pervasive atmosphere that constrains thinking itself, not just culture #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 35