Žižeka pasaule
Zizek said that one of the sure signs of capitalism’s ideological triumph today was the disappearance of the very term “capitalism” and the dangerous temptation of the anti-globalisation movements to transform a critique of capitalism (“which ought to be centred on economic mechanisms, forms of work participation and profit extraction, and so on”) into a critique of imperialism.
By doing this, “by personalising the enemy” thus by talking about “American imperialism”, for example, instead of “capitalism”, he said, “you sustain a very dangerous dream – the potentially reactionary dream of ultra-modernity that the Americans or the West Europeans did it their way, this liberal, exploitative, individualist capitalism, but, surely, we can do it in a different way, without the problems, the quarrels, struggles and wars generated by it.
Now I am sceptical about this, because, we know what such ultra-modernity produced in Europe, throughout, or at least in the first half of the 20th century: fascism. Fascism is precisely a project of ultra-modernity.”
Zizek said that one of the sure signs of capitalism’s ideological triumph today was the disappearance of the very term “capitalism” and the dangerous temptation of the anti-globalisation movements to transform a critique of capitalism (“which ought to be centred on economic mechanisms, forms of work participation and profit extraction, and so on”) into a critique of imperialism. By doing this, “by personalising the enemy” thus by talking about “American imperialism”, for example, instead of “capitalism”, he said, “you sustain a very dangerous dream – the potentially reactionary dream of ultra-modernity that the Americans or the West Europeans did it their way, this liberal, exploitative, individualist capitalism, but, surely, we can do it in a different way, without the problems, the quarrels, struggles and wars generated by it. Now I am sceptical about this, because, we know what such ultra-modernity produced in Europe, throughout, or at least in the first half of the 20th century: fascism. Fascism is precisely a project of ultra-modernity.”Viss raksts
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