Systemic realism and active political commitment can coexist rather than exclude each other

Evidence

Nonetheless, the proposal is clearly immediately relevant to the issue of the “new social movements” and their relationship to capitalism insofar as it provides the simultaneous possibility of active political commitment along with disabused systemic realism and contemplation, and not some sterile choice between those two things. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 712

Categorization

• XREF: This reconciles the two poles of the reader’s own project: situating their position in the world system while retaining the will to act within it. — connects to: Mid-century existentialists disputed whether political disagreement can coexist with friendship — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 780; Technocratic realism is descriptively accurate but costs citizens their political autonomy — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 102; Realism masks ideology as maturation via biology and economic constraint — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 996 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mid-century existentialists disputed whether political disagreement can coexist with friendship — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 780; Technocratic realism is descriptively accurate but costs citizens their political autonomy — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 102; Realism masks ideology as maturation via biology and economic constraint — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 996 (+4 more)