The failure was lacking a post-Fordist left vision, not Fordism ending.

Evidence

Part of the problem here was the absence of a left response to post-Fordism — instead there was an attachment to the comfort of old antagonisms, you could say. We had internalised the story that there was a strong workers’ movement which depended on unity. What were the conditions for that? Well, we had Fordist labour, the concentration of workers in confined spaces, the domination of the industrial workforce by male workers, etc. The breakdown of those conditions threatened the breakdown of the workers’ movement. There was the emergence of a plurality of other struggles, leading to the undermining of the common purpose that the workers’ movement once possessed. But that kind of nostalgia for Fordism was actually dangerous — the failure was not that Fordism ended, but that we had no alternative vision of modernity to compete with the neoliberal account. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1651

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the learned-example corpus on nostalgia for industrial labor conditions being politically dangerous. — connects to: The left’s failure was lacking an alternative modernity, not Fordism’s end.; The left lost because it failed to produce its own version of post-Fordism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2099

Broader Connections

• The left’s failure was lacking an alternative modernity, not Fordism’s end. #corroborates (0.92)