Re:Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
by astrange on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:57PM
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They can't be that good if they produced the UK left, which is one of the world's worst and least successful left movements and is currently promoting "intentionally making the country poorer". Since the UK is already becoming poorer, of course, nobody even needs them for that.
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Re:Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
by thebooktocome on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:39PM
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Fisher did not “produce” the UK left, he was an outspoken critic of Labor. Actual politicians these days rarely take notice of philosophers.
His main work, Capitalist Realism, was about the post-Cold war condition in which any alternative to Capitalism seems defeated before it gets off the ground—your comment is a splendid example of this phenomenon.
The UK can't escape capitalism because it hasn't escaped feudalism yet. Should try that first. It's run for the benefit of retirees and landlords at the moment.
I'm not super intimately familiar with Fishers work but from what I do know I think he would be extremely disappointed with most modern leftist movements.
Though most of what I've read from him is descriptive rather than prescriptive.