Jonathan EmmesediI couldn't subscribe to all of the the commitments and beliefs of British cultural theorist Mark Fisher, but his jargon free writing is full of insights deserving consideration by all those thinking of themselves as being on the left, even in the most attenuated sense of that term.
Although the section of this essay on Russell Brand has not aged well, the more general arguments about callout culture and neoanarchists are as pertinent as ever.
Thinking of Fisher's premature death in 2017 still occasions grief and a grim recognition of the damage wrought by austerity policies on the health care system.
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Exiting the Vampire Castle
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication.