Universal anti-capitalist discontent stays inert without an organizing agent.

Evidence

Now we find ourselves in a situation where everybody disdains bankers and finance capitalism, and the level of control that these people still hold over all of our lives. Everyone is aghast at the plunder, avoidance of tax and so forth, yet at the same time there is this sentiment that we can do nothing about it. And why has that sentiment grown so powerful? It is because there really is no agent to mediate the feelings people have and organise those people. The effect is that discontent can be widespread, but without such an agent it will remain at the level of individual disaffection. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1645

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1685; Tolerated internal factions remain toothless when denied real power. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 591; A social movement can potentially exist without its participants knowing they belong to it. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1192 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-capitalist movements fail for lacking institutional memory. #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1685
• Tolerated internal factions remain toothless when denied real power. #corroborates (0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 591
• Group solidarity persists only as long as grievance-driven mobilization continues #complicates (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 833
• A social movement can potentially exist without its participants knowing they belong to it. #qualifies (0.72) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1192