Specific winnable goals distinguish effective anti-capitalist struggle from mere carnival

Evidence

Now is the time to organise and agitate. The cuts can provide a galvanising focus for an anti-capitalist campaign that can succeed. Protests in these conditions won’t have the hubristic impotence of anticapitalist “feelgood feelbad” carnivals and kettles. This is shaping up to be a bitter struggle, but there are specific, determinate and winnable goals that can be achieved here: it isn’t a question of taking a peashooter to the juggernaut of capital. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1470

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ style carnival politics Fisher treated in ch about the left’s defeat and in the Red Wedge analysis. — connects to: Socialist meaning must be won through struggle; Effective political action must match its tactic to the phase of struggle — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 902; Effective anti-capitalism must rival, not merely react to, Capital. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 162 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Effective political action must match its tactic to the phase of struggle #corroborates (0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 902
• Socialist meaning must be won through struggle #expands (0.78)