The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits

Evidence

Live 8 was a strange kind of protest; a protest that everyone could agree with: who is it who actually wants poverty? And it is not that Live 8 was a ‘degraded’ form of protest. On the contrary, it was in Live 8 that the logic of the protest was revealed in its purest form. The protest impulse of the 60s posited a malevolent Father, the harbinger of a reality principle that (supposedly) cruelly and arbitrarily denies the ‘right’ to total enjoyment. This Father has unlimited access to resources, but he selfishly – and senselessly – hoards them. Yet it is not capitalism but protest itself which depends upon this figuration of the Father; and one of the successes of the current global elite has been their avoidance of identification with the figure of the hoarding Father, even though the ‘reality’ they impose on the young is substantially harsher than the conditions they protested against in the 60s. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The psychoanalytic reframing — that the fantasmatic Father is a projection of protest rather than a property of capitalism — is genuinely dense material.
• XREF: connects to: Believing capitalism is bad licenses continued participation in it — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 31; The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196 (+1 more)

Related

• Protest depends on positing a hoarding Father the global elite avoids embodying (similarity 0.92)
• The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure #complicates (0.82) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
• Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose #complicates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196