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this field of nationalist passions

[...] Why then should the left leave this field of nationalist passions to the radical right [...] Could the radical left not mobilize these same nationalist passions as a mighty weapons against the dominant force in today's global society, the increasingly unfettered reign of rootless financial ca…

—p.191 The Great Regression The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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prosopopoeia

ideological prosopopoeia is having a heyday: the markets have started to talk again as living persons, 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

—p.186 The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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division that is strictly immanent

[...] The Berlin Wall [...] signified that capitalism was not the only option, that an alternative to it, although a failed one, existed. By contrast, the walls that we see rising today [...] don't stand for the division between capitalism and communism but for a division that is strictly immanent …

—p.185 The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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the surviving Blair supporters

[...] the surviving Blair supporters in the Labour Party believed they could persuade their traditional voters to remain in the EU with a lengthy catalogue of the economic benefits of membership, without taking the uneven distribution of those benefits into account.It did not occur to a liberal pub…

—p.165 The return of the repressed as the beginning of the end of neoliberal capitalism (157) by Wolfgang Streeck