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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...d]] truth. What Christianity did with regard to the Roman [[Empire]], this global "multiculturalist" polity, we should do with regard to today's Empire.1 How ...ts of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.
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• Democracy
  ...freedom to trade in markets, together with the power of [[money]] and “[[market]] forces” in shaping public [[life]], undermines the [[other]] liberal fr ...Indeed, in writings since 2006, particularly around the [[time]] of the [[global financial crisis]], Žižek has increasingly drawn upon [[Alain Badiou]]’
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...m]] - a world in which the brutal imposition of a [[unified]] [[global]] [[market]] threatens all local ethnic traditions, including the very form of the [[n
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...ge]] publishers must occasionally scramble to keep him from flooding the [[market]]. No less than a dozen titles have appeared under his name since 1989, inc ...sal truth in the same way that Pauline [[Christianity]] did to the Roman [[global]] empire." He adds: "My [[dream]] is to combine an extremely dark, [[pessim
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...epresents the only possibility for [[resistance]], who wants to critique [[global]] [[capitalism]] without falling back on faded [[Marxist]] slogans, Zizek's ...organization. I think that the left should disrupt this equation that more global organization means more totalitarian [[control]].</p>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  flood the [[market]]?</i> am very close to flooding the market; the next thing will be that
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...nt of all the autocrats, royal families and the corporate dictatorships of global capitalism) is currently/always impossible . . ." In this way, impossibilit ...d system. In this way, the abject can become doubly victimized: first by a global capitalist order that actively excludes them; and, second, by an aseptic po
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...ign="bottom" border="0">the information revolution, and globalized, free-[[market]] modernity<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" bord ..."particularistic" [[religions]] (and even in [[Islam]], in spite of its [[global]] expansionism), there is a place for others, they are tolerated, even if t
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ange, the [[refusal]] of the uncertainties of the [[Brave New World]] of [[global]]ist [[modernization]].<ref>Many pro-European commentators favorably oppose ...that the <i>Linkspartei</i> effectively IS a pure protest party with no [[global]] viable program of [[change]].)
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...stinguish their product-the information revolution, and globalized, free-[[market]] modernity-from the detestable older kind, without getting themselves invo ..."particularistic" [[religions]] (and even in [[Islam]], in spite of its [[global]] expansionism), there is a place for others, they are tolerated, even if t
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• Overview
  ...point de capiton - which signifier ("communism", "fascism", "capitalism", "market economy" and so on) will be entitled to quilt the ideological field ("freed ...is materialized in an independent press, democratic elections and the free market.
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...th its own “principal contradiction” (today, it is the opposition of [[market]]-[[freedom]]-democracy and fundamentalist-terrorist-[[totalitarianism]] - ...say today – Mao Ze Dong’s [[fear]] that even a minimal compromise with market [[economy]] will open up the path that ends in total surrender to capitalis
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• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  * [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/uk-weather-heatwave-global-warming-climate-change-philosopher-a8475721.html Why being a philosopher in ...t-pipe-bombs-brett-kavanaugh-global-left-altright-a8606611.html To end our global political crisis, the left needs to learn from Donald Trump]
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...gine something more foreign to our universe of the freedom of opinions, of market competition, of nomadic pluralist interaction, etc., than Robespierre's pol ...e presupposes formally/legally equal subjects who meet and interact on the market; the crucial moment of Marx's critique of "bourgeois" socialists is that ca
  87 KB (14,415 words) - 18:46, 14 June 2007
• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...t Americans to break up the conspiracy. THIS is the hard kernel of today's global capitalist universe, its true Master-Signifier: democracy. <ref>And are the ...m itself: capitalism can fully thrive not in the unencumbered reign of the market, but only when an obstacle (the minimal Welfare State interventions, up to
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...y is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of capitalism, or does today's [[global]] capitalism contain strong enough [[antagonisms]] which will prevent its i ...gle socio-political [[agent]] effectively can alter and even interrupt the global historical [[process]], so that, ironically, it is only today that we can s
  47 KB (7,661 words) - 20:02, 27 May 2019
• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...y - because markets get saturated. Produce variety and you produce a niche market. The oddest of affective tendencies are okay - as long as they pay. Capital ..." conclusion that, in a "worldless" universe (which is today's universe of global capitalism), the aim of emancipatory politics should be the precise opposit
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...– why? Or, [[another]] example: in today's [[Germany]], there are on the market many CD's with old DDR revolutionary and party songs, from "[[Stalin]], Fre ...of the Leftist Communist opposition which pursued the oxymoron of the anti-market "radical" [[economic]] politics combined with the calls for direct and true
  34 KB (5,320 words) - 00:39, 26 May 2019
• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...d, Kant does not fail to mention the Mandevillean [[rationality]] of the [[market]] in which each individual's pursuit of his/her egotistic interests is what ...s of social life and thus guarantees its consistency: beneath the chaos of market, the degradation of morals, etc., there is the purposeful strategy of the [
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...cy, guarantee of [[private property]], the inclusion into the [[global]] [[market]] [[economy]], etc.) that should open up the perspective of freedom to the
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