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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 10 months ago

this dilemma is wrong

[...] The point is that this dilemma is wrong: the dilemma cannot be solved at this level since the very gap between private interest (safety of my son) and global justice bears witness to a situation which has to be overcome.

—p.247 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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the true novelty of the Syriza government

[...] The true novelty of the Syriza government is that it is a governmental event--the first time that a Western radical Left (not the old-style Communist one) has taken state power. The entire rhetoric, so beloved of the New Left, of acting at a distance from the state, has to be abandoned: one…

—p.242 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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Communism is today not the name of a solution

Communism is today not the name of a solution, but the name of a problem, the problema of commons in all its dimensions--the commons of nature as the substance of our life, the problema of our biogenetic commons, the problema of our cultural commons ('intellectual property'), and, last but not …

—p.214 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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what pushed them to violence?

[...] what was inherently wrong with the twentieth-century Communist project, and which immanent weakness of this project forced the Communists (and not only the Communists) in power to resort to unrestrained violence? In other words, it is not enough to say that Communists 'neglected the problem o…

—p.205 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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repeat Thatcher's gesture in the opposite direction

So what remains of Thatcher's legacy today? Neoliberal hegemony is clearly falling apart. The only solution is to repeat Thatcher's gesture in the opposite direction. [...]

—p.180 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek