Capitalist realism is itself a pathology of the left

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. It was an attitude promoted by New Labour — what was New Labour if not instantiating the values of capitalist realism? In other words, we resign ourselves to the fact that there is no getting around capital: capital will ultimately run things, and all we can do is perhaps bolt on a couple of tethers as gestures toward social justice. But essentially ideology is over, politics is over: we are in the era of so-called post-ideology, the era of post-politics, where capital has won. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1643

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the commonsense framing that such resignation is imposed by the right, attributing it to the left’s own defeatism. — connects to: The 2010 student protests expressed discontent with capitalist realism itself — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1527; Capitalist realism is a pathology of the left, not merely a right-wing imposition. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1643

Broader Connections

• Capitalist realism is a pathology of the left, not merely a right-wing imposition. #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1643