6/21/2023 0 Comments Books like capitalist realism![]() It sits awkwardly at times on the line between being a polemic or an academic paper, and in doing so doesn't exactly offer enough for the autodidact OR the student as they might want. This is a good book discussing an important issue, and it is a short one that tries very hard to contain a much larger body of work and a great many more ideas (i had this suggested to me as "three times longer than the page count"). ![]() "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. 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. ![]() It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. ![]()
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