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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

a fantasy inherent to capitalism itself

In short, what Marx overlooked is, to put it in standard Derridean terms, that this inherent obstacle/antagonism as the 'condition of impossibility' of the full deployment of the productive forces is simultaneously its 'condition of possibility': if we abolish the obstacle, the inherent contradicti…

—p.146 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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there is no big Other

[...] Perhaps the Left should learn fully to assume the basic 'alienation' of the historical process: we cannot control the consequences of our acts--not because we are just puppets in the hand of some secret Master or Fate which pulls the strings, but for precisely the opposite reason: there is no…

—p.129 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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we can't merely abolish the market

[...] the great lesson of state socialism is that the direct abolition of private property and market-regulated exchange without concrete forms of social regulation of the process of production necessarily resuscitates relations of servitude and domination. If we merely abolish the market (inclusiv…

—p.116 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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they don't need any further legitimization

The paradox is that, precisely because it lacks democratic legitimacy, an authoritarian regime can sometimes be more responsible towards its subjects than one that was democratically elected: since it lacks democratic legitimacy, it has to legitimize itself by providing services to the citizens, wi…

—p.108 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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why every revolution has to be repeated

This is why every revolution has to be repeated. It is only after the first enthusiastic unity disintegrates that true universality can be formulated, a universality no longer sustained by imaginary illusions. It is only after the initial unity of the people falls apart that the real work begins, t…

—p.104 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek