“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” Mark Fisher, a political theorist and philosopher, said in his book “Capitalist Realism,” which was published in 2009. Capitalist realism is a term and theory he coined as the concept of capitalism being the only viable economic system with its corrupt political views and how there is no other alternative to capitalism or an entirely different economic system that can’t help the working class. He built this theory upon other radical thinkers such as Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

The psychology of people stating how capitalism has made us more depressed, and in some manner, “iron curtain” us into believing that we are just cogs in the machine to work harder even if the outcome of the proletariat [mode of production/working class] will never meet the same outcome of the bourgeoisie [top one percent that controls capital and mode of production]. This all comes off as very doom-esque, yet it is the most forward thinking and coincidental theory to come out and talk about the exploitation of late-stage capitalism. It is nothing more than a crumbled building as the top one percent persist to keep trying to rebuild capital just for it to fall again in a continuous cycle. 

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and a zombie maker, but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombie it makes are us,” said Fisher in “Capitalist Realism.” This is seen in today’s world with how much taxpayer dollars are being cut for the bourgeoisie, the wealthy, while the proletariats, working class, are paying more in tax and for their labor. Wasteful spending to fulfill the fascist regime and further expand capital across nations and de-territorialize the culture, land and people of everything they establish in this world. All of these codes and fluxes work like a hive mind to get you to see what the fascist wants you to see. 

Other such critical thinkers when it comes to capital having a way with our consciousness are Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. They published a book called “Anti-Oedipus” in 1972, as the name suggests Oedipus plays a role in our psychology. Deleuze and Guattari would go on to critique and throw psychoanalyzes right out the window, for they find it outdated and oversimplifying actual issues when it comes to people who are suffering from mental illness. “The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture, the discovery was soon buried beneath the new brand of Idealism,” Deleuze and Guattari said in their book. Desire is the driving force for many events in one’s own daily life and we are desiring machines who produce products of desire. 

Deleuze and Guattari also comment about Sigmund Freud and how he didn’t want to work with schizophrenic people, for he saw them as too unpredictable and couldn’t work under the Oedipus triangle, leaving them out of the equation. Yet, what if Deleuze and Guattari would further elaborate on how the schizophrenic was out of this capitalism full body? Deleuze and Guattari describe schizophrenia as on a whole other spectrum when it comes to the thought of thinking, it’s unfiltered, unpredictable, and, most importantly, it is free. In some sort of manner, they are closer to the materialist world than most people are.

Capital can’t mold or shape the schizophrenic for they have already shaped the world. Of course, Deleuze and Guattari aren’t saying you must be schizophrenic for you to be free from capitals codes and fluxes of trying to categorize the individual, but rather to think more “schizophrenically” about situations and the materialistic world around you. 

We as a community need to think more “schizophrenically.” We need to question the political view we are being presented with to combat the regime of fascism. That’s what it means to think schizophrenically and see beyond the iron curtain that capitalism has installed in our conscious. Forget about the capital gain that plagues this “God’s nation” and free yourself from their oedipization – don’t desire fascism, don’t desire your shackles. Desire your free will.