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Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
- Capitalism, in this rhetorical strain, is not so much the object of analysis or a concrete historical phenomenon as an all-purpose gesture. “Capitalism” is useful everywhere: as the punchline of self-deprecating jokes about the way we live now, as a perennial-but-distant bogeyman that explains chronic frustrations without ever causing enough pain t... See more
from Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism" by Gawker
Keely Adler added