Left movements must reject glorified failure and build coordinating memory institutions.

Evidence

If you do not have something like a party structure then you do not have institutional memory, and you just end up repeating the same mistakes over and over. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1685 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Instead of the “hot” response of outrage (with its immediate nugget of satisfaction, achieved at the cost of a long-term political impotence), we need a cooler stance of appraising the enemy’s weapons and strategies, and thinking about how to counter, overcome and ultimately outwit them. Is a left-wing version of the Mail possible? If not, how could we construct a discursive hub that is as successful for the left as the Mail is for the right? This needs to be part of a broader strategy of devoting our energy and resources to goals and projects that will deliver change in the long-term, breaking us out of the short-termism that has become endemic in the age of Twitter. What we need to overturn is something that has been the case since before Thatcher’s rise to power — the tendency for reactionary political forces to be pro-active, and for progressives to be reactive. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1697 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1685; Left romanticism about glorious failure blocks institutional learning; Progressives must build long-term discursive infrastructure instead of reacting — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1697 (+1 more)

Related

• Left movements need institutional memory and coordination, which capital already has. (similarity 0.93)
• Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. (similarity 0.91)
• Progressives must build long-term discursive infrastructure instead of reacting (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Left romanticism about glorious failure blocks institutional learning #corroborates (0.95)
• Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1685
• Progressives must build long-term discursive infrastructure instead of reacting #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1697