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Get your first month of Audible absolutely free and listen to the audiobook that inspired this episode, Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Visit https://audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500 There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually changing it into something better. Let's explore the idea of capitalist realism. Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism and Communist Realism https://books.google.com/books?id=75YnlcDv6ToC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover http://k-punk.org/communist-realism/ https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher The Capitalist Gaze (and The Usual Suspects quote) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/discourse.35.1.0003 Tony Blair’s quote https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/europe-et-international/activites-parlementaires-internationales/l-international-a-l-assemblee-nationale/receptions-dans-l-hemicycle-de-chefs-d-etat-et-de-gouvernement/folder/tony-blair Pete Buttigieg’s quote https://jacobin.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution https://books.google.com/books?id=uDAaAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover Slavoj Zizek, The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto https://books.google.com/books?id=psaKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover https://youtu.be/OpW2t_RFgQw Alain Badiou quote https://www.lacan.com/badiou-on-evil.htm More on capitalist realism https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/reading-capitalist-realism-ten-years-on/ https://youtu.be/6Cb5XJH4NMI https://diadelics.medium.com/fishers-business-ontology-and-the-appeal-of-donald-trump-9054a00bf379 Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: [email protected]