/lit/ - Literature

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>>12944291
He was pretty much right with the main thrust of capitalist realism - the slowdown or continued re-retrofication of our popular conceptions of the future, as well as the idea that it is becoming increasingly difficult for people today to even consider a system/future outside of capitalism as remotely viable. Additionally, the insights in that book regarding the continued expansion of neoliberal bureaucracy, what he calls market Stalinization, is really spot on (if you work in healthcare/gov't you come to know this all too well).

Exiting the Vampires' Castle was so accurate that it basically got him killed as a result of the excommunication and vitriol he received from idpollers on the 'left'. He was 100% correct when he said-

>But the rejection of identitarianism can only be achieved by the re-assertion of class. A left that does not have class at its core can only be a liberal pressure group. Class consciousness is always double: it involves a simultaneous knowledge of the way in which class frames and shapes all experience, and a knowledge of the particular position that we occupy in the class structure. It must be remembered that the aim of our struggle is not recognition by the bourgeoisie, nor even the destruction of the bourgeoisie itself. It is the class structure – a structure that wounds everyone, even those who materially profit from it – that must be destroyed. The interests of the working class are the interests of all; the interests of the bourgeoisie are the interests of capital, which are the interests of no-one. Our struggle must be towards the construction of a new and surprising world, not the preservation of identities shaped and distorted by capital.

So much of what is called the left, at least in the US/UK, is just this - petite-bourgeois liberals basically shitposting about womens/trans/race politics, not about creating an actual shift in the structure of western civilization which creates these issues in the first place (because changing the fundamental structure of our societies is very difficult and painful, but calling people racist on twitter is easy and earns you social cred. with your echochamber peer group). Pointing out this fact ultimately proved fatal for Mark, albeit in a roundabout way.

It is unfortunate that we'll never see a completed Acid Communism. Fisher was great at diagnosing issues with capitalism/modernity, but one of the main criticisms of him that I've seen is that he suggested very little in how to actually achieve the changes he wanted so desperately. From what I understand, Acid Communism was intended to serve that vision.

>>12867573
I think you're pretty much spot-on. Fisher's charming nostalgia coupled with the pain of the lost futures he'd been haunted by all his life while staring down the barrel of an accelerating late capitalism and all the pain that comes with that on top of the social stigma he was put through (for being correct) is, I think, what ultimately pushed him beyond his breaking point.

In Ghosts of My Life he talks a bit about Ian Curtis and his suicide - Joy Division being something Fisher obviously appreciated greatly. I couldn't help but read that section as, well, as something that resonated a lot with Fisher. I'm sure he'd contemplated his suicide through the lens of analysis of the suicides/early deaths of all the musicians and authors he'd gleaned so much from over the years. Really tragic to re-read that book after his passing.

Imagine: NeoUSSR arrives from the future

When did you realize Mark Fisher was the greatest philosopher of the 21st century?

>>12665480
just skip the schizo and go for the real hero (Mark Fisher) instead

>>12612320
Fisher > Land. Yeah, he's not meme material, but he was a precious sadboy.

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