The critical reader therefore understands that this is about us, about our era. The film The Children of Men serves to launch a reflection about totalitarianism which is still on the increase today despite, and even through, the persistence of the democratic form: “the authoritarian measures that are everywhere in place could have been implemented within a political structure that remains, notionally, democratic.“ It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism We will try to show both by retracing the author's narrative of "capitalist realism" following him chapter by chapter. Getting to the point, from a revolutionary point of view, the text makes some interesting observations but also contains some remarkable weaknesses. We won’t dwell on the biography of the author who committed suicide in January 2017 (it is available online).
Motive enough for us to provide the reader in search of a real anti-capitalist perspective with a small critical re-reading of the work. Written in English in 2009, but only translated into Italian last year, the booklet aims to be a manual for the perfect anti-capitalist of the new millennium. We’ve noticed that Mark Fisher's text Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is creating a lot of interest amongst the younger generation in Italy.
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