Review: Capitalist Realism

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It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.

I couldn’t stay away from a book titled, CAPITALIST REALISM: IS THERE NO ALTERNATIVE? Give whoever came up with that title a medal, maybe that was even author Mark Fisher himself. Regardless, this is a brief, but piercing examination of post-modern thinking surrounding our economic and cross cultural malaise when it comes to thinking “beyond capital.”

Fisher lays out the primary premise of this book, which is also succi...