Capitalist realism is there no alternative?

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and pr...

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Main Author: Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Alresford, Hampshire, UK : Zer0 Books, 2022.
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Zer0 classics
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Table of Contents:
  • Forward by Zoe Fisher
  • Introduction by Alex Niven
  • It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
  • What if you held a protest and everyone came?
  • Capitalism and the Real
  • Reflexive impotence, immobilization and liberal communism
  • October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything'
  • All that is solid melts into PR: market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production
  • '...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder
  • 'There's no central exchange'
  • Marxist Supernanny
  • Afterword by Tariq Goddard.