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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 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 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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there is no longer an identifiable external enemy inspo/misc

[...] it was easy for the advocates of post-Fordist Capital to present themselves as the opponents of the status quo, bravely resisting an inertial organized labor 'pointlessly' invested in fruitless ideological antagonism which served the ends of union leaders and politicians, but did little to ad…

—p.34 October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' (31) by Mark Fisher
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the only natural and acceptable solutions

The persistent association of neoliberalism with the term 'Restoration', favored by both Badiou and David Harvey, is an important corrective to the association of capital with novelty. For Harvey and Badiou, neoliberal politics are not about the new but a return of class power and privilege. '[..…

—p.28 Reflexive impotence, immobilization and liberal communism (21) by Mark Fisher
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bureaucracy was supposed to be have been made obsolete topic/drift

[...] With the triumph of neoliberalism, bureaucracy was supposed to be have been made obsolete [...] the way in which capitalism does actually work is very different from the picture presented by capitalist realism.

—p.20 Capitalism and the Real (16) by Mark Fisher