By dying before finishing Acid Communism, Fisher freed us up not just to argue about what he really meant by Acid Communism, but also to argue ahistorically about what the best possible version of Mark Fisher would have meant by Acid Communism, and that’s a silver lining.
Leaving a mysterious gap in the most important part of an idea is a good way to haunt people, and haunted people can be very productive. What’s the left’s equivalent of Fermat’s Last Theorem?
