Post-‘89 socialism: ‘The underlying attitude is: capitalism has come to stay, Lamented at the turn of the millennium, a spirit of accommodation came to haunt Grasping for a new conception of emancipatory politics. Much as the Right’s willing dazzlement with the market, socialists were left Under the weight of its own internal contradictions-yet, since the demise ofĪctually-existing communism and the ‘end of history’ inġ989, an ennui has come over the Left. Its eschatology-its central prophecy of the inevitable collapse of capitalism Such was the strange malaise of our times as captured by the late Mark Fisher’s notion of capitalist realism: ‘the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.’ ‘It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’. Thomas Piketty (2020), Capital and Ideology.
Eugene McCarraher (2019), The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.
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