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the price of progress

[...] From Marx on, the truly radical Left was never simply 'progressist'. It was always obsessed with the question: what is the price of progress? Marx was fascinated by capitalism, by the unheard-of productivity it unleashed; it was just that he insisted that this very success engenders antagonis…

—p.19 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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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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the first socioeconomic order which detotalises meaning

[...] one of the main dangers of capitalism: although it is global and encompasses the whole world, it sustains a stricto sensu worldless ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of people of any meaningful cognitive mapping. Capitalism is the first socio-economic order which _de-t…

—p.7 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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it is the capitalist dynamics which are boring

[...] Cynical conformism tells us that emancipatory ideals of more equality, democracy and solidarity are boring and even dangerous, leading to a grey, overregulated society, and that our true and only paradise is the existing 'corrupted' capitalist universe. Radical emancipatory engagement starts …

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek