"A quick and entertaining read." Socialist Standard "A provocative and necessary read.for anyone wanting to talk seriously about the politics of education today. It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. This quote, attributed to both Fredric Jameson and Slavoj iek, is the title of the first chapter of Mark Fisher’s popular book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative, and it is.
The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. 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. This requires a social and political explanation and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism. Mental Health Mental health was of particular. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Capitalism is destined to destroy the planet at its current rate this is the most powerful weapon against the spell of capitalist realism.
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