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Acid Communism, as proposed by Mark Fisher, has origins in [[File:Poststruct.png]]{{PCBA|[[mh:philosophyball:Post-Modernism|Jacques Derrida's}}]] book ''The Spectres of Marx ''in 1993. All that Fisher had written on it was an introduction for a potential book, which was never finished due to his suicide. The unfinished introduction can be read in ''K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016).''

In ''Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative'' Mark Fisher articulates and goes into detail about the famous quote from [[File:Žižekism.png]] [[Neo-Marxism|Žižek]] - "It is easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of capitalism." Fisher shows that this is due to our new [[File:Postmodernicon.png]] {{PCBA|[[mh:philosophyball:Post-Modernism|Postmodern}}]] condition. [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] declared itself to be the end of history, there are no contenders to it. Even classical rebels have been used to profit Capitalism by buying merchandise of those such as [[File:Guevara.png]] [[Guevarism|Guevara]] or other cold war revolutionaries. Small scale rebellion is to Capitalism's benefit. Along with this proposals for systematic change like those of [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|Social Democrats]] still stay within the realm of Capitalism. It seems as though after the death of an existing system in opposition to Capitalism in the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]] we are unable to imagine anything diffrentdifferent. Even in the post 68 disciplinary societies of the 70's and 80's there was still not a closed plane of ideology. To put the predicament in [[File:Meta-Anarchism.png]] {{PCBA|Meta-Anarchism|Deleuzian}} terms, ideological desire has been territorialized to fit into Capitalism.

In ''Ghosts Of My Life'' Fisher continues the logic of [[File:Poststruct.png]] {{PCBA|[[mh:philosophyball:Post-Modernism|Derrida}}]], arguing that from [[File:CapRealism.png]] [[mh:philosophyball:Capitalist Realism|capitalist realism]], futures that where to be have been canceled. Take the end of [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Dialectical Materialism]], that being the stateless, classless, utopia of [[File:Commie.png]] [[Communism (Disambiguation)|Communism]]; Fisher argues that the current present is haunted by that lost future. Capitalist realism has effectively "canceled" this future. Fisher agrees with [[File:Poststruct.png]] {{PCBA|[[mh:philosophyball:Post-Modernism|Derrida}}]] that there is a spectre of these lost futures haunting us in everyday life. In the predicament of capitalist realism we may be unable to imagine a future beyond [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] yet we are haunted by these futures to be. Fisher argues that these spectres of ideas are the main reason for the current spike in depression, as [[File:Freud.png]] {{PCBA|[[mh:philosophyball:Freudianism|Psychoanalysis}}]] can only handle things on an individual level, never considering large systemic problems that could lead to anguish. In the end Fisher feels as though we are trapped, and that the future is canceled.

*[[File:Postmodernicon.png]] {{PCBA|Mh[[mh:polcompballanarchyphilosophyball:Post-Modernism|Post-Modernism}}]] - I am influenced by you, but you're too influenced by capitalism.