Review

Crises Can Be Openings

Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth

by Sasha Lilley
Adbusters

November 30th, 2011

Crises can be openings: moments when the stanchions are kicked out from under the status quo, when the pieties of the recent past fall away and a revitalized sense of collective power takes shape. But crises aren’t always—or only—opportunities for radicals, mechanically ushering legions of the downtrodden to the barricades. In times of crisis the far right often harnesses the insecurities of the precarious, as well as the monied, in the service of xenophobia and austerity. Paradoxically, crises of capitalism are opportunities for capital.

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