Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism

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There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually changing it into something better. Let's explore the idea of capitalist realism.

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Citations and Further Reading:

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism and Communist Realism
https://books.google.com/books?id=75YnlcDv6ToC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
http://k-punk.org/communist-realism/
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher


The Capitalist Gaze (and The Usual Suspects quote)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/discourse.35.1.0003

Tony Blair’s quote
https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/europe-et-international/activites-parlementaires-internationales/l-international-a-l-assemblee-nationale/receptions-dans-l-hemicycle-de-chefs-d-etat-et-de-gouvernement/folder/tony-blair

Pete Buttigieg’s quote
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism

Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution
https://books.google.com/books?id=uDAaAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover

Slavoj Zizek, The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
https://books.google.com/books?id=psaKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
https://youtu.be/OpW2t_RFgQw

Alain Badiou quote
https://www.lacan.com/badiou-on-evil.htm

More on capitalist realism
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/reading-capitalist-realism-ten-years-on/
https://youtu.be/6Cb5XJH4NMI
https://diadelics.medium.com/fishers-business-ontology-and-the-appeal-of-donald-trump-9054a00bf379

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