Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology

Evidence

Taken together, the immobilizers, with their implicit concession that capitalism can only be resisted, never overcome, and the liberal communists, who maintain that the amoral excesses of capitalism must be offset by charity, give a sense of the way in which capitalist realism circumscribes current political possibilities. 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

Taken together, the immobilizers, with their implicit concession that capitalism can only be resisted, never overcome, and the liberal communists, who maintain that the amoral excesses of capitalism must be offset by charity, give a sense of the way in which capitalist realism circumscribes current political possibilities. 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. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the chapter 4 claim that ‘Corporate anti-capitalist satire reinforces rather than undermines capitalist realism’ — charity-minded capitalism is likewise structural reinforcement. — connects to: Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 123; Liberal philanthropists combine profit-seeking with charity rhetoric — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 59; Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 582 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61

Related

• Liberal communism is now capitalism’s dominant ideology, not its corrective. (similarity 0.94)
• Liberal communists pursue profit while deploying the rhetoric of social responsibility (similarity 0.81)
• Post-2008 capitalist ideology shifted from exclusionary threat to enforced solidarity (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalist realism is belief in capital’s invincibility, not belief in its merits (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s ideology is now itself anti-capitalist in content #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 582
• Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 186