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Behind the News: Mark Fisher's Legacy w/ Matt Colquhoun

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Is Capitalism a Pessimistic Book?

There's been some discussion of whether capitalist realism is a pessimistic book. How do you read that distinction? It isn't pessimistic, but it's negative. We have a tendency to be certainly gloomy, but also to a fault, right? I guess that's the, there's two sides of the same coin. There's a forced positivity and a forced pessimism.

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