Leftist self-doubt since the sixties is a political vice

Evidence

We must learn to overcome certain habits of anti-Stalinist thinking. The danger is not anymore, nor has it been for some time, excessive dogmatic fervor on our side. Instead, the post-68 left has tended to overvalue the negative capability of remaining in doubt, scepticism and uncertainties — this may be an aesthetic virtue, but it is a political vice. The self-doubt that has been endemic on the left since the Sixties is little in evidence on the right — one reason that the right has been so successful in imposing its programme. Many on the left now quail at the thought of formulating a programme, still less “imposing” one. But we have to give up on the belief that people will spontaneously turn to the left, or that neoliberalism will collapse without our actively dismantling it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1741

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The recasting of Keatsian negative capability as an aesthetic virtue and political vice is a genuinely paradigm-shifting reframing that resists one-line summary.
• XREF: connects to: Leftist self-doubt is a political vice, not a virtue — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1741

Broader Connections

• Leftist self-doubt is a political vice, not a virtue #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1741