Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British philosopher Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism", which he describes as "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it." Capitalist realism is then loosely defined as the predominant conception that capitalism is the only viable economic system, and thus there can be no imaginable alternative.  Supporters of capitalist realism do not believe that capitalism is a perfect system, but instead that it is the only system that can operate in a means compatible with human nature and economic law. By promoting the idea that innate human desire is only compatible with capitalism, any other system that is not based on the personal accumulation of wealth and capital is seen as counter to human nature and, by extension, impossible to implement. 

For this year-long project, in your opinion, imagine an alternative to capitalism that is not some throwback to discredited models of state control.