Right-wing populism addresses capitalism’s existential deficit through nationalism

Evidence

Current right-wing populism is responding to real problems of the neoliberal world. In addition to economic stagnation, it is also offering a balm for the existential deficit in contemporary capitalism: the banal nihilism of a world cored out by capitalist imperatives. Its answer, naturally, is nationalism. But this is by no means the only response to the problem of belonging. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2047

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nationalism answers an existential belonging deficit that capitalism creates — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2047; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation; Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 83 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism answers an existential belonging deficit that capitalism creates #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2047
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost #expands (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370
• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #expands (0.74)
• Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone #complicates (0.73) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 83
• Capitalist realism’s depoliticising hegemony invited populist fervour to replace it #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2042