We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one can actually change things by "extending" democracy to ple's control. Radical changes in this domain should be made outside the sphere of legal "rights", etcetera: no matter how radical our anti-capitalism, unless this is understood, the solution sought will involve applying democratic mechanisms (which, of course, can have a positive role to play)- mechanisms, one should never forget, which are themselves part of the apparatus of the "bourgeois" state that guarantees the undisturbed functioning of capitalist reproduction. In this precise sense, Badiou hit the mark with his apparently wired claim that "Today, the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It's called Democracy." it is the "democratic illusion" the acceptance of democratic procedures as the sole framework for any possible change, that blocks any radical transformation of capitalist relations.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: politics democracy political
...witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their own lives?' Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact that we, in First World countries, find it more and more difficult even to imagine a public or universal Cause for which we would be ready to sacrifice our life?
Slavoj ŽižekBeyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: reality philosophy psychology ontology
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between "false" conflicts and the "true" conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a "false" one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its "truth": the Leftist emancipatory position.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: philosophy religion marxism
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?
Slavoj ŽižekDvije stavke određuju današnji liberalan tolerantni stav prema drugima: poštivanje drugih, otvorenost spram njih i opsesivni strah od uznemiravanja. Drugi je OK toliko dugo dok njegovo prisustvo nije nametljivo, toliko dugo dok drugi nije doista drugi. Tolerancija se podudara sa svojom suprotnošću: moja dužnost da budem tolerantan spram drugog u biti znači da mu ne smijem doći preblizu, da ne smijem ući u njegov/njezin prostor – ukratko, da trebam poštivati njegovu/njezinu netoleranciju prema mojoj prevelikoj blizini. To je ono što se sve više i više pojavljuje kao središnje »ljudsko pravo« u našem društvu: pravo da nas se ne uznemiruje, odnosno, da budemo na sigurnoj razdaljini od drugih.
Slavoj ŽižekHumanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: humanity stupidity boring
Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: freedom capitalism language ideology
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: love philosophy
We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: speech
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