Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

by Mark Fisher

Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital.

We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquitous.

There is no laid out solution , need tol work together to create one

The credit crisis is an opportunity – but it needs to be treated as a tremendous speculative challenge, a spur for a renewal that is not a return.

an effective anti-capitalism must be a rival to Capital, not a reaction to it;

Anti-capitalism must oppose Capital’s globalism with its own, aut...

Nothing is inherently political; politicization requires a political agent which can transform the taken-for-granted into the up-for-grabs.

Nothing contradicts capitalism’s constitutive imperative towards growth more than the concept of rationing goods and resources.

The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect.