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There is no alternative

Ideological struggle gave way to the TINA ('there is no alternative') principle, and the foundations for a technocratisation of politics had been laid.

—p.22 by David Van Reybrouck
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fomenting

we should do the same with the progress of global capitalism today: keep in mind its dark underside, which is fomenting revolts

—p.19 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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enervating

What is so enervating about Varoufakis is not his radicality but his rational pragmatic modesty--no wonder that many radical members of Syriza accused him of capitulating to the EU.

I am never going to remember which meaning this word has am I

—p.237 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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prosopopoeia

ideological prosopopoeia has its heyday: markets start to talk as living entities, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity and structural reform

forgot the meaning but what a great word

—p.234 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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stagflation

The late 1960s and the early 1970s were not just the times of oil crisis and stagflation

He goes through the whole US hegemony story in about a page (cites Yanis Varoufakis too)

—p.226 Afterword to the paperback edition (215) by Slavoj Žižek
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