Essays & Interviews
Mark Fisher in Postmodernity
Though Fisher uses the concept ‘capitalist realism’ with the hope of coming out the other side of postmodernism, he succumbs to its ambiguities and false genealogies as it fetishises what is new; the USSR becomes identical to the US and European powers, and Marx, Lenin, and Stalin become dead white men who may as well be T.E. Lawrence.
Inside the Last Days of the CPGB-ML
Some members had already left, fed up with the ignorance and incompetence of the Central Committee, while others, against their better judgement, stayed to try and correct the course of the party. But still the Central Committee could only picture the working class a caricature, telling members of the party to lose weight and get ‘working class’ haircuts – before going on to unironically describe Tommy Robinson’s hairstyle.