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the difference between liberalism and the radical Left

The difference between liberalism and the radical Left is that, although they refer to the same three elements (the liberal centre, the populist Right, and the radical Left), they locate them in a different topology: for the liberal centre, the radical Left and Right are two forms of the same 'tota…

—p.100 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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the difference between the working class and the proletariat

[...] the 'working class' is ultimately an empirical category designating a part of society (wage workers), while the proletariat is more a formal category designing the 'part of no-part' of the social body, the point of its symptomal torsion or, as Marx put it, the un-reason within reason--the rat…

—p.96 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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superego-individualization

A series of situations that characterize today's society perfectly exemplify this type of superego-individualization: ecology, political correctness and poverty [...] The ideological stakes of such individualization are easily discernible: I get lost in my own self-examination instead of raising mu…

—p.87 Cardiognosis (51) by Slavoj Žižek
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Peter Buffett on philanthropic colonialism

[...] Peter Buffett (Warren's son) recently published a New York Times op-ed in which he explained Philanthropic Colonialism:

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their…

—p.48 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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debt as a means of control archive/so478

[...] Today's global capitalism brings the relationship of debtor/creditor to its extreme and simultaneously undermines it: debt becomes an openly ridiculous excess. We thus enter the domain of obscenity: when a credit is accorded, the debtor is not even expected to return it--debt is directly trea…

—p.45 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek