Table of Contents

Foreword Zoe Fisher ix

Introduction Alex Niven xiii

1 It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism 1

2 What if you held a protest and everyone came? 12

3 Capitalism and the Real 16

4 Reflexive impotence, immobilization and liberal communism 21

5 October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' 31

6 All that is solid melts into PR: market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production 39

7 '…if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder 54

8 'There's no central exchange' 62

9 Marxist Supernanny 71

Afterword Tariq Goddard 82