I have enjoyed what I’ve read of Mark Fisher, though I haven’t read CR except via excerpt and quotation. If you are open to a compelling, non-Marxist analysis

I have enjoyed what I’ve read of Mark Fisher, though I haven’t read CR except via excerpt and quotation. If you are open to a compelling, non-Marxist analysis of the present malaise, I would recommend the writings of Augusto Del Noce. The past seventy years have made something of a prophet of Del Noce. He predicted, as early as the 1950s, and among other things which were — at that time — unthinkable: the fall of communism, the sexual revolution, and the global supremacy of a new stage of capitalism, which he believed would become its own, existentially suffocating form of totalitarianism. He wasn’t magic, he just had a very logical way of thinking through the consequences of ideas. He didnt have a philosophical system, but drew heavily from Vico and Rosmini, who did. He was also influenced by his own experience with totalitarianism in the early 20th Century, where he briefly became a Catholic Communist in response to the rise of Fascism, before rejecting both. He was also conversant with modern and contemporary philosophy in a way not paralleled by other Catholic thinkers of his time, excepting Ratzinger. If this sounds interesting, a good introduction is this book review[0], written by him shortly before his death, but after having been vindicated by the collapse of the USSR and it’s aftermath. It touches on a number of Del Nocean ideas: the suicide of the Revolution, the heterogenesis of ends, Occidentalism as ideology, Neo-Capitalism, and traditionalism as an ideological reduction of religious tradition. His books are even better — every bit as clear-eyed and unnerving as what I’ve read of Fisher, but with a glint of hope. [0] https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/marxism-died-in-the-east-because-it-realized-itself-in-the-west/ https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/marxism-died-in-th... (don’t be put off by the cold-warrior title, I’m not sure that it’s his own).