Toby Jaffe

“The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“The exploiting classes need political rule to maintain exploitation, i.e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority against the vast majority of all people. The exploited classes need political rule in order to completely abolish all exploitation, i.e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners – the landowners and capitalists.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin, State and Revolution

“Lowering our expectations, we are told, is a small price to pay for being protected from terror and totalitarianism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?