A review by jentang
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

i really don't feel knowledgeable enough on any political or economical affair to leave a rating for this book, but i want to applaud Fisher for the digestibility of his writing. he serves as prime evidence that you don't need to litter your work with jargon and words used most commonly in a thesaurus in order to be credible, that you need not be afraid your arguments will actually be understood by someone who has never attended Cambridge with a political concentration. of Fisher's remarks on the implications of capitalist realism on our world that i felt i wholly grasped, it's unfortunately commendable just how right he has continued to be into today. we are still living through the death of culture here and now, just as we were when fisher wrote this book. merely an hour ago, i read a thread posted about how the accessibility of therapy is essentially eroding the resilience of children (their child had been offered a trauma counselor after a kid on their sports team was accidentally elbowed in the eye by another child, therefore needing stitches). i think it's safe to say that this would never have been a thought crossing anyone's mind seventy years ago, much less one that inspired over 200 comments of discussion in the span of a few hours today, and one Fisher already had broken down fourteen years ago. anyways, don't give me another work of political and philosophical commentary unless it also imagines "the Marxist Supernanny".