Neo-anarchism is an effect of, not a challenge to, capitalist realism

Evidence

It seems, as times, as if the horizontalists want to occupy everything except parliament and the mainstream media. But why not occupy the state and the media too? Neo-anarchism isn’t so much of a challenge to capitalist realism as it is one of its effects. Anarchist fatalism — according to which it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than a left-wing Labour Party — is the complement of the capitalist realist insistence that there is no alternative to capitalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1735

Only the horizontalist left believes the rhetoric about the obsolescence of the state. The danger of the neo-anarchist critique is that it essentialises the state, parliamentary democracy and “mainstream media” — but none of these things is forever fixed. They are mutable terrains to be struggled over, and the shape they now assume is itself the effect of previous struggles. It seems, as times, as if the horizontalists want to occupy everything except parliament and the mainstream media. But why not occupy the state and the media too? Neo-anarchism isn’t so much of a challenge to capitalist realism as it is one of its effects. Anarchist fatalism — according to which it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than a left-wing Labour Party — is the complement of the capitalist realist insistence that there is no alternative to capitalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1735

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the assumption that horizontality is the radical option; ties to the book’s running doubt about horizontalism and to ch 47’s control-society analyses. — connects to: Capitalist realism makes alternatives to capitalism unthinkable — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 8; Moral critiques of capitalism only strengthen its realism — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 36; Capitalist realism is the belief that capitalism is the only viable game in town (+3 more)
• SEED: The inversion — horizontalism as the mirror-image fatalism of capitalist no-alternative rhetoric — is a strong essay angle on why movement ‘purity’ in form replicates the very defeatism it opposes.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1735