Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

everyone is a capitalist

In this way, the ultimate triumph of capitalism comes about when each worker becomes his or her own capitalist, the 'entrepreneur-of-the-self' who decides how much to invest in his or her own future (education, health and so forth), paying for these investments by becoming indebted. What were forma…

—p.45 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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one can proceed to dismantle the welfare state

[...] the capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative, of a different mode of production which promises workers their rights. To retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better e…

—p.38 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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the paradox of debt

[...] At a more fundamental level, we should clearly perceive the paradox of debt. The problem with the slogan 'You cannot spend more than you produce!' is that, taken universally, it is a tautological platitude, a fact and not a norm (of course humanity cannot consume more than it produces, like y…

—p.29 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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transposing it onto 'parasitic' financial capital

Communism remains the horizon, the only horizon, from which one can not only judge but even adequately analyse what goes on today--a kind of immanent measure of what went wrong. That's why one should abandon the 'neo-Ricardian compromise between wage labour and productive capital against the powe…

—p.26 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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now undermining capitalism itself

[...] the crisis is not just the result of inadequate financial regulations, it expresses 'the intrinsic difficulty to make immaterial capital function like capital and cognitive capitalism to function like capitalism'. As such, this crisis signals the end of the 1990s project of the New Economy, t…

—p.26 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek