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“Ve işte bazen, hastayken, mutsuzken, aşıkken, fecibir kabus gördüğümüzde, genel olarak normdan uzaklaştığımız durumlarda iki kişi olduğumuzu açık seçik duyarız: Yani ben tek kişiyimdir ama içimde biri daha vardır. Bu gizemli "o" sık sık mırıldanır, bazen ağlar, içinden çıkıp uzak bir yere gitmek ister, canı sıkılır, korkar. Görürüz ki iki kişiyiz ve birbirimizden bıkmışız. Bilincimiz çift değil tek olduğunda bir hafiflik, özgürlük duyarız, manasız bir hayvan cennetine düşmüşüz gibi.”
― Mutlu Moskova
― Mutlu Moskova
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
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“There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name..”
― Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
― Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Both Hegel and Marx believed that the evolution of human societies was not open-ended, but would end when mankind had achieved a form of society that satisfied its deepest and most fundamental longings. Both thinkers thus posited an "end of history": for Hegel this was the liberal state, while for Marx it was a communist society. This did not mean that the natural cycle of birth, life, and death would end, that important events would no longer happen, or that newspapers reporting them would cease to be published. It meant, rather, that there would be no further progress in the development of underlying principles and institutions, because all of the really big questions had been settled.”
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