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    We explore Mark Fisher's haunting idea that imagining the end of the world is easier than envisioning alternatives to capitalism, examining how market logic colonizes consciousness and limits our collective imagination.

    Capitalism's Mental Prison

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    Capitalist realism is this pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable economic and political system, and that it's impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it. If we can't imagine alternatives, we can't create them.

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    Modern philosophy, post-capitalism, Zizek, Chomsky, Fisher, Fromm etc., humanist, liberal

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    Capitalist Realism
    The sublime object of ideology
    Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
    Capital
    23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    Profit Over People

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