Liberal communism is now capitalism’s dominant ideology, not its corrective.
Evidence
Whereas the immobilizers retain the form of 68-style protest but in the name of resistance to change, liberal communists energetically embrace newness. Žižek is right to argue that, far from constituting any kind of progressive corrective to official capitalist ideology, liberal communism constitutes the dominant ideology of capitalism now. ‘Flexibility’, ‘nomadism’ and ‘spontaneity’ are the very hallmarks of management in a post-Fordist, Control society. But the problem is that any opposition to flexibility and decentralization risks being self-defeating, since calls for inflexibility and centralization are, to say the least, not likely to be very galvanizing. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 61
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61; Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 582; The New Left treated culture as constitutive, not subordinate to economics
Related
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- Reification is inescapable, so the left should pursue anti-capitalist reification (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content (similarity 0.79)
- Post-2008 capitalist ideology shifted from exclusionary threat to enforced solidarity (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology
#corroborates(1.00) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 61 - Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 582 - The New Left treated culture as constitutive, not subordinate to economics
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