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Book cover for Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
How do we know what we think we know about the world? In this initial inquiry, we take up a set of questions that examine the ways in which people come to understand how the world works. This set of processes, usefully understood as the ...more
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Slavoj Žižek
“workers don’t protest when they live in poverty; they protest when they experience their poverty as an injustice for which the ruling class as well as the state are responsible.”
Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

Slavoj Žižek
“The path to true change opens only when we lose hope in a change within the system.”
Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

Slavoj Žižek
“The true “revolutionary” who undermines the foundations of our societies is not external terrorists or fundamentalists but the dynamics of global capitalism itself.”
Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

Slavoj Žižek
“The challenges that we face, from global warming to refugees, digital control, and biogenetic manipulations, require nothing less than a global reorganization of our societies. Whichever way this happens, two things are sure: it will not be enacted by some new version of a Leninist communist party, but it will also not happen as part of our parliamentary democracy. It will not be just a political party winning more votes and enacting social democratic measures.”
Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

Slavoj Žižek
“Today, the situation is not one in which heaven is divided into two spheres, as was the case in the Cold War period when two global worldviews confronted each other. The divisions of heaven today appear increasingly drawn within each particular country. In the United States, for instance, there is an ideological and political civil war between the alt-Right and the liberal-democratic establishment, while in the United Kingdom there are similarly deep divisions, as were recently expressed in the opposition between Brexiteers and anti-Brexiteers . . . Spaces for common ground are ever diminishing, mirroring the ongoing enclosure of physical public space, and this is happening at a time when multiple intersecting crises mean that global solidarity and international cooperation are more needed than ever.”
Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

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