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Communism is today not the name of a solution

Communism is today not the name of a solution, but the name of a problem, the problema of commons in all its dimensions--the commons of nature as the substance of our life, the problema of our biogenetic commons, the problema of our cultural commons ('intellectual property'), and, last but not …

—p.214 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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what pushed them to violence?

[...] what was inherently wrong with the twentieth-century Communist project, and which immanent weakness of this project forced the Communists (and not only the Communists) in power to resort to unrestrained violence? In other words, it is not enough to say that Communists 'neglected the problem o…

—p.205 Appendix (192) by Slavoj Žižek
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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