Staub’s difficult-life-conditions concept is psychological and subjective, not material

Evidence

There is a problem, however, in seeing capitalist realism just as a belief and an attitude, in that both are based on individual psychology. The discussion needed is one that interrogates where those beliefs and attitudes come from, for what we are actually dealing with is the social decomposition that gives rise to them. For that, we really need a narrative about the decline of solidarity and the decline of security — the neoliberal project achieved its aim of undermining them. Capitalist realism then is also a reflection of the recomposition of various forces in society. It is not just that people are persuaded of certain beliefs, but rather that the beliefs people have reflect the way that forces in society are composed in contemporary capitalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1644 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The We-subject experience is a subjective psychological event, not an ontological relation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1035; Capitalist realism requires materialist explanation, not individual psychology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1644

Broader Connections

• Capitalist realism requires materialist explanation, not individual psychology #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1644