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For a populace already demoralized by political gridlock, economic precarity, and an impenetrable morass of disinformation, resistance can feel like too much work. The only people left with any ambition are those bent on abusing it. When cynicism slides into compliance, the autocrat has won.

How do we fight this autocracy-enabling cynicism? We don’t have to fool ourselves that things are better than they are. It is “possible to imagine situations where we might be in a state of despair without being in the state of giving up”, writes the University of St Andrews philosopher Mara Van Der Lugt in Hopeful Pessimism. Similarly, the British left collective Salvage proposes “hard-won pessimism”. This “is neither cynicism nor hopelessness: it is about our clear-sighted analysis – of capitalism, of the class system, of the centrality of this antagonism to our lives – that we refuse to gloss over the scale of the difficulties we continue to face”. That analysis recognizes winnable battles and makes room for celebration of victories.