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the long, dark night of the end of history

The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole…

—p.80 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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a rival to Capital, but a reaction to it

[...] One of the left's vices is its endless rehearsal of historical debates, its tendency to keep going after Kronsdadt or the New Economic Policy rather than planning and organizing for a future that it really believes in. The failure of previous forms of anti-capitalist political organization sh…

—p.78 Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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the effects of a single systemic cause

[...] Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents it…

—p.77 Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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abnegation

allow the media class to further abnegate its function to educate and lead

—p.75 Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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