Occupy’s defeat exemplified the capitalist realism claim that alternatives to the market are unimaginable.

Evidence

Critics like Andrew Ross Sorkin argued, however, that OWS would be “an asterisk in the history books, if it gets a mention at all.” The movement’s failure to achieve tangible victories reinforced theorist Mark Fisher’s idea of “capitalist realism,” in which we could no longer even imagine a “coherent alternative” to the current economic system. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism is a direct conceptual precursor to Marx’s omnivore monoculture thesis — the collapse of imaginable alternatives to a flattened present. — connects to: Capitalist realism makes a coherent alternative to capitalism unimaginable. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 8; Austerity measures intensified capitalist realism by presuming there was no alternative to capitalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2205
• DEFINE: Defines capitalist realism economically: the loss of the capacity to imagine a coherent systemic alternative.