# Acid communism A focus on [[the role of culture in politics]]. [[Consciousness raising]]. Coined by [[Mark Fisher]] (with some input from Jeremy Gilbert? see [[#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box]]) > acid communism is not so much a political or economic programme as an alternative outlook offered to those wishing to break the grip of [[capitalist realism]] on our imaginations > > – [[Long Read Review: k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)]] See [[#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box]] for a bit of discussion.