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too much toleration of failure on our side

Obviously all the anti-capitalist movements, right up to Occupy, have managed to mobilise disaffection, but they have not been able to coordinate it in a way that causes capital any long-term problems at all. What could coordinate discontent? And what could convert ambient disaffection into sustain…

—p.530 K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win (521) by Mark Fisher
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the welfare state as revolution insurance

[...] Capital has no idea of any solution to the crises which led up to 2008. There is no guarantee that the current crisis can be ended, because capital’s means of keeping wages low and demand up was debt itself. If you make debt harder to come by, then what is going to take its place? There is no…

—p.528 Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win (521) by Mark Fisher
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neoliberalism was supposed to cut away the red tape

[...] Neoliberalism was supposed to cut away the red tape. So why is it that teachers are required to perform more bureaucratic tasks than they ever were in the heyday of social democracy?

Simply because neoliberalism has got nothing to do with the freeing of markets, and everything to do with c…

—p.524 Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win (521) by Mark Fisher
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not just that people are persuaded of certain beliefs inspo/anti-capitalism

There is a problem, however, in seeing capitalist realism just as a belief and an attitude, in that both are based on individual psychology. The discussion needed is one that interrogates where those beliefs and attitudes come from, for what we are actually dealing with is the social decompositio…

—p.522 Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win (521) by Mark Fisher
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