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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a radical emancipatory politics

This is what separates a radical emancipatory politics from our political status quo. We’re talking here not about the difference between two visions, or sets of axioms, but about the difference between politics based on a set of universal axioms and a politics which renounces the very constitutive…

—p.34 Violence Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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what should be done with our liberal communist

What, then, should be done with our liberal communist who is undoubtedly a good man and really worried about the poverty and violence in the world and can afford his worries? Indeed, what to do with a man who cannot be bought by the corporate interests because he co-owns the corporation; who holds …

—p.32 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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two sides of the same coin

This is why the delicate liberal communist – frightened, caring, fighting violence – and the blind fundamentalist exploding in rage, are two sides of the same coin. While they fight subjective violence, liberal communists are the very agents of the structural violence which creates the conditions f…

—p.31 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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that which stands out from this background

We live in a society where a kind of Hegelian speculative identity of opposites exists. Certain features, attitudes and norms of life are no longer perceived as ideologically marked. They appear to be neutral, non-ideological, natural, commonsensical. We designate as ideology that which stands out …

—p.31 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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the dark side of 1960s 'sexual liberation'

Here is the dark side of 1960s ‘sexual liberation’: the full commodification of sexuality.

—p.30 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek