Capitalism


The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Atlas Shrugged
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Capital in the Twenty First Century
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Capitalism and Freedom
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
The Communist Manifesto
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Marxist Political Economy
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Guilt-Inducing Books
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Breaking Brown Book Reads
109 books — 71 voters


Mark Fisher
Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational p ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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