Capitalist realism is a pathology of the left, not merely a right-wing imposition.

Evidence

So capitalist realism is a belief, but it is also an attitude related to that belief — an attitude of resignation, defeatism and depression. Really then, capitalist realism, whilst it is disseminated by the neoliberal right, and very successfully so, is a pathology of the left, or elements of the so-called left, that they succumb to. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1643

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist logic is a fragile political construction, not an inevitable order. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 140; Marxism’s true bourgeois homologues are neoliberals, not fascists. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 581; Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 446 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist logic is a fragile political construction, not an inevitable order. #complicates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 140
• Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right #expands (0.75) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 446
• Marxism’s true bourgeois homologues are neoliberals, not fascists. #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 581