snails with the beard - Day

Thursday, November 19, 2009

10:24PM

"However, when the sublime mist of the velvet revolutions was dispelled by the new democratic-capitalist reality, people reacted with an unavoidable disappointment that manifested itself, in turn, as nostalgia for the “good old” Communist times; as rightist, nationalist populism; and as renewed, belated anti-Communist paranoia."

- Slavoj Zizek, 20 Years of Collapse

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