Failed electoral campaigns can still clarify how neoliberalism blocks collective action

Evidence

Whether capital crushes Syriza or not, it has already made major contributions to what will be a long struggle to overturn neoliberal hegemony. A line from Keir’s “On Social Strikes and Directional Demands” has kept coming back to me in all of the noise and chaos around the Greek situation: “Even at their point of failure Plan B electoral politics can be useful if they can clarify the anti-democratic effects of neoliberalism that work against all forms of collective action.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1954

Categorization

• QUESTION: Under what conditions do failed electoral ‘Plan B’ efforts actually clarify versus demoralize? Fisher names this hopeful mechanism but does not test it.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal theories succeed as policy rhetoric despite having scant evidence — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 425; Chile’s neoliberal economic model survived the transition to democracy despite electoral defeat — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1606

Broader Connections

• Chile’s neoliberal economic model survived the transition to democracy despite electoral defeat #exemplifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1606
• Neoliberal theories succeed as policy rhetoric despite having scant evidence #expands (0.74) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 425