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a standard story of colonisation

[...] What is correct about the quoted statement is the reminder of European hypocrisy: the European manoeuvre was indeed to pay for its own guilt with another people’s land. So when the Israeli government spokesman Ra’anan Gissin said in response, ‘Just to remind Mr Ahmadinejad, we’ve been here lo…

—p.94 Violence Presto: (89) by Slavoj Žižek
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tear down the true wall

[...] If one were to open the borders, the first to rebel would be the local working classes. It is thus becoming clear that the solution is not ‘tear down the walls and let them all in’, the easy empty demand of soft-hearted liberal ‘radicals’. The only true solution is to tear down the true wall,…

—p.88 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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dialectic

We are not dealing now with ‘globalisation’ as an unfinished project’ but with a true ‘dialectics of globalisation’: the segregation of the people is the reality of economic globalisation.

on refugees in Europe

—p.87 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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lying in the guise of the truth

[...] Jacques Lacan claimed that, even if the patient’s wife really is sleeping around with other men, the patient’s jealousy is still to be treated as a pathological condition. In a homologous way, even if rich Jews in the Germany of the early 1930s ‘really’ exploited German workers, seduced their…

—p.84 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek