Left movements need institutional memory and coordination, which capital already has.

Evidence

There is far too much toleration of failure on our side. If I ever have to hear that Samuel Becket quote, “Try again, fail again, fail better”, I will go mad. Why do we even think in these terms? There is no honour in failure, although there is no shame in it if you have tried to succeed. Instead of that stupid slogan we should aim to learn from our mistakes in order to succeed next time. The odds might be stacked in such a way that we do keep losing, but the point is to increase our collective intelligence. That requires, if not a party structure of the old type, then at least some kind of system of coordination and some system of memory. Capital has this, and we need it too to be able to fight back. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1686

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the institutional-memory argument also found in debates about protest movements elsewhere in Fisher’s writing. — connects to: Left movements must reject glorified failure and build coordinating memory institutions.; Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1685; Opposition to capital must mirror capital’s sufficient globalization and patchwork coordination. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2219
• CANDY: The Becket ‘fail better’ takedown plus ‘Capital has institutional memory and discipline; we need it too’ is a tweetable reframing.

Broader Connections

• Left movements must reject glorified failure and build coordinating memory institutions. #expands (0.90)
• Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1685