ESSAY text by MARK FISHER artwork by ROBERT LONGO legendary k-punk futurist mark fisher provided a laser-sharp critique of today’s late-capitalist society. his text acid communism was last unfinished work before he committed suicide in 2017 The claim of this text is that the last forty years have been about the exorcising of “the spectre of a world which could be free”. Adopting the perspective of such a world allows us to reverse the emphasis of much recent left-wing struggle. Instead of seeking to overcome capital, we should focus on what capital must always obstruct: the collective capacity to produce, care and enjoy. We on the left have had it wrong for a while: it is not that we are anti-capitalist, it is that capitalism, with all its visored cops, its teargas, and all the theological niceties of its economics, is set up to block the emergence of this Red…