Street-based anti-capitalist protest fails because it abandons the workplace where politics meets daily life.

Evidence

Because the anti-capitalist movements that have arisen since the Nineties have ultimately done nothing, they have caused capital no concern at all — it has been so easy to route around them. Part of the reason for that is the fact that they have taken place out on the street, ignoring the politics of the workplace and of the everyday. And that feels remote to ordinary working people, because at least with the unions, for all their flaws, there was a direct connection between everyday lives and politics. That connection is now missing, and anti-capitalist movements have not provided it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1683

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the occupation/the-masses-versus-the-institutions strand in Fisher’s critique of horizontalism; connects to reading on New Labour and passive revolution elsewhere in K-Punk. — connects to: Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 156; Anti-capitalist struggle fails when it abandons electoral and hegemonic politics entirely. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1682; Left protest shifted from workplace to spectacle because it lacked embedded organizations. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 156 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged #corroborates (0.95) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156
• Left protest shifted from workplace to spectacle because it lacked embedded organizations. #expands (0.82) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156
• Anti-capitalist struggle fails when it abandons electoral and hegemonic politics entirely. #qualifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1682
• Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. #qualifies (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1685
• Occupy collapsed because it rejected theory and organization while ignoring its own neoliberal backers #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 904