Are there any notable leftist books that came out recently? It feels like the "leftist canon" is just decades-old stuff
>>25351604Slavoj Žižek writes some interesting stuff
>>25351604nothing groundbeaking that i'm aware of. but some good stuff.the problem is that there's no horizon of meaningful political possibility within which to write. there's no potential audience whom a book could bring to life as a political force, no creativity or desire or rage to unlock and transmute and set loose. so it all ends up as a kind of whining, grieving, head-scratching, preaching to the converted or going around in circles. but what can you do.
>>25351604Leftism is a dead end to serfdom
>>25351604At this point it's fairly obvious that leftism has been coopted by corporations and turned into a safe and commercial version of itself. The books that come out now and then are rehashes of previous ideas but sterilized, they no longer offer an alternative to the current system nor a way to fight it back, only criticism you can find in everywhere else. And the few ones that aren't are quickly buried by corporations or even leftist themselves for being too radical.
isp on /lit/ holy shit
>>25351604the zeitgeist is about nonwhites and justifying the destruction of the west, not religion and justifying the destruction of monarchies
>>25351604Have you read Fisher?
Capitalist Realism was the last one and it's been debunked via suicide
>>25353688>debunked via suicidethe ultimate refutation
Capital in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito was popular in the degrowth Marxist space a few years ago and it came out in 2020. I think the solar power boom has throughly debunked it but it’s still there.
>>25353686His last books came out like a decade ago.
>>25351604Last I noticed were Graeber and Hudson.>>25352017Marxism is not leftism. Leftism is the road away from the rightwing institutions of monarchy and serfdom. Read mother fucker READ.
>>25351604Yeah, this one. But it’s brutal.
This was the last leftist book and ended with the acknowledgement he project had failed.
>>25353688>>25353692>>25354233You skipped the part where you make an argument.
>>25354187>Leftism is the road away from the rightwing institutions of monarchy and serfdom.No it isn't retard. Leftists *proclaim* that it is but so do, idk, Catholic integralists. None of it matters, what matters is evidence: And leftist government *of all kinds* reliably and repeatedly reduces its citizenry to chattel. >Read mother fucker READ.I've certainly read more than you
>>25354246Mark Fisher made it for us when he killed himself.
>>25351604This one?
>>25354358That’s a non sequitur. Fisher killing himself does not logically entail "Fisher’s critique of capitalist realism is false,". You still have to connect the two, which I know is difficult for someone who hasn't read the book, but give it your best shot anyway since you seem so inclined to partake here regardless.Fisher argued that capitalism privatizes suffering and turns social misery into individual pathology. If anything, his suicide does not refute that claim, it sits squarely inside the terrain he was describing. So again I will ask you: what claim of Fisher's is contradicted by his suicide?
>>25353688thank you op, i laughed
Left wing politics are primarily centered on racial issues and immigration. Same for right-wing politics. Books centered on class issues thus have no significant audience anymore.
>>25354187>Marxism is not leftism.Bait or mental retardation?
>>25354380If you kill yourself you lose simple as
>>25353686Don't do this>>25354187It really depends on the leftist theorist in question
>>25354540left wing of capital, not marxism necessarily, but many ‘marxists’
>>25354358he proved his point by actually killing himself, it's easier to imagine killing yourself than imagining a world without capitalism. Almost like Socrates drinking poison and forever corrupting the youth of athens
>>25354187of course marxism is left - anything truly progressive and truly for the people is left.simple as
>>25353686>>25354380Anon, 99% of /lit/ who post in these threads haven't *read* a single work of Fisher or Debord or Baudrillard, let alone their oeuvre. They've absorbed one-sentence summaries and formed an entire worldview around them. They won't engage with logic or reason.
>>25355610simulacrum is a meme book that people here have read and the other two are literal who's who no one cares about
>>25355615>meme bookThat's all of /lit/ in a nutshell
This is a good one:https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/04/22/welcome-to-the-age-of-technofeudalism-interviewed-by-wired-magazine/
>>25355615cool down bud, literal who's is too far. I know they aren't as famous as your BAP buddy or jordon Icantstoptaking drugs son in your manlysissy groups.
>>25354187>Marxism is not leftism. >>25354540>Bait or mental retardation?What he's getting at is that "left" and "right" are ideological abstractions produced by capitalist politics. It's more of a theoretical argument and they do that while distinguishing themselves from "progressive liberal" types who want a fairer version of capitalism. It's supposed to be a more radical critique of the whole system. But at any rate most people would still describe Marxism as a left-wing ideology because of what its aims are.
>>25355610>They've absorbed one-sentence summariesthat's literally all you need to get their gistit's also why they're still so popular especially among young people
>>25355600I should write a thesis on that
>>25355695no, it's notyou're too dumb to even understand tha some ideas take more than a sentence to understandtry to improve your life instead of pretending to be smart for not trying, you're not a teen anymore.
