Neo-anarchist disengagement from mainstream media serves the powerful it opposes

Evidence

The blunt answer is that, although anarchist tactics are the most ineffective in attempting to defeat capital, capital has destroyed all the tactics that were effective, leaving this rump to propagate itself within the movement. … There is an uncomfortable synergy between the rhetoric of the “big society” and a lot of the neo-anarchist ideas and concepts. For example, one of the things which is particularly pernicious about some of the dominant ideas within anarchism at the moment is their disengagement from the mainstream. … There is the idea, for instance, that the mainstream media is an inherently corrupt monolith. The point is that it is completely corrupt, but it is not a monolith. It is a terrain that is effectively controlled at present by neoliberals, who took the fight over the mainstream media very seriously, and consequently won that struggle. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1676

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how withdrawal-as-purity politics accidentally colludes with the status quo it abhors — ‘the synergy between the big society and neo-anarchism’ is a striking essay hook.
• XREF: connects to: Neo-anarchism is an effect of, not a challenge to, capitalist realism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1735; The left must reshape media rather than avoid or capitulate to it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2152

Broader Connections

• Neo-anarchism is an effect of, not a challenge to, capitalist realism #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1735