More on capitalist realism, following this earlier note about the need for an analysis of materialist realism to fully understand the nature of reality.
"Capitalist
realism can be seen as a belief: that there’s no alternative to
capitalism, that, as Fredric Jameson put it, it’s easier to imagine
the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Other systems might
be preferable to capitalism, but capitalism is the only one that is
realistic. Or it can be seen as an attitude of resignation and
fatalism in the face of this – a sense that all we can do is
accommodate ourselves to the dominance of capitalism, and limit our
hopes to containing its worst excesses. Fundamentally, it’s a
pathology of the left, nowhere better exemplified than in the case of
New Labour. Ultimately, what capitalist realism amounts to is the
elimination of left wing politics and the naturalisation of
neoliberalism." from here
"Capitalist
realism can be seen as a belief: that there’s no alternative to
capitalism, that, as Fredric Jameson put it, it’s easier to imagine
the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Other systems might
be preferable to capitalism, but capitalism is the only one that is
realistic. Or it can be seen as an attitude of resignation and
fatalism in the face of this – a sense that all we can do is
accommodate ourselves to the dominance of capitalism, and limit our
hopes to containing its worst excesses. Fundamentally, it’s a
pathology of the left, nowhere better exemplified than in the case of
New Labour. Ultimately, what capitalist realism amounts to is the
elimination of left wing politics and the naturalisation of
neoliberalism." from here
pic from here
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