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repeat Thatcher's gesture in the opposite direction

So what remains of Thatcher's legacy today? Neoliberal hegemony is clearly falling apart. The only solution is to repeat Thatcher's gesture in the opposite direction. [...]

—p.180 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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John Jay Chapman on political radicals topic/drift

[...] John Jay Chapman (1862-1933), today a half-forgotten American political activist and essayist who wrote about political radicals:

The radicals are really always saying the same thing. They do not change; everybody else changes. They are accused of the most incompatible crimes, of egoism…

—p.176 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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fidelity to pre-modern values

[...] fidelity to pre-modern ('Asian') values is paradoxically the very feature which allows countries like China, Singapore and India to follow the path of capitalist dynamics even more radically than Western liberal countries. Reference to traditional values enables individuals to justify their…

—p.170 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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when the colonizers are beaten at their own game

[...] colonialism is not overcome when the intrusion of the English language as a medium is abolished, but when the colonizers are, as it were, beaten at their own game--when the new Indian identity is effortlessly formulated in English, i.e., when English language is 'denaturalized', when it loses…

—p.169 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek