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British cultural theorist, Fisher developed the concept of capitalist realism to examine the difficulty of imagining alternatives to capitalism. He connected culture, mental health and neoliberalism, and outlined acid communism.
Political axes
Mark Fisher leans further toward progressive than 98% of the 447 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Mark Fisher stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Mark Fisher sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic management of the market.
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight26%
A French utopian socialist, Fourier linked social progress to the emancipation of women and criticized the patriarchal family, moral repression, and social hierarchies, imagining ideal cooperative communities.
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A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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