#andreasmalm

Capitalist realism colonizes the way we think about the world precisely by disguising the very notion of capitalism — the less conspicuous, the better. So, capitalism does not work as something explicit, but rather precisely as something undefined. Or to put it differently, overcoming it depends as much on exposing it as the thing at work (showing that it is at work at all) as on grasping the precise way it works (showing how it works). Those two moments, though related, are not identical. The clue seems to be that we are not aware of its existence — it is, we remember, the water we obviously swim in. https://roarmag.org/essays/malm-fisher-climate-crisis