Re: [Marxism] Slavoj Zizek, what a reactionary pig

[Gary MacLennan via Marxism]

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Good on you Lou, He is a charlatan (and a well paid on at that). Lister
members should contrast the Zizek article with Richard Seymour's fine blogs
on the same topic.  I have disagreements with Richard, but he is a decent
human being unlike the super star from Slovenia.


comradely

Gary

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

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> Tens of thousands of refugees in Balkan countries are desperate to get to
> Germany. They assert their dreams as their unconditional right, and demand
> from the European authorities not only proper food and medical care but
> also transportation to the destination of their choice. There is something
> enigmatically utopian in this demand: as if it were the duty of Europe to
> realise their dreams – dreams which, incidentally, are out of reach of most
> Europeans (surely a good number of Southern and Eastern Europeans would
> prefer to live in Norway too?). It is precisely when people find themselves
> in poverty, distress and danger – when we’d expect them to settle for a
> minimum of safety and wellbeing – that their utopianism becomes most
> intransigent. But the hard truth to be faced by the refugees is that ‘there
> is no Norway,’ even in Norway.
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> full:
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/slavoj-zizek/the-non-existence-of-norway
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[Marxism] Slavoj Zizek, what a reactionary pig

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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Tens of thousands of refugees in Balkan countries are desperate to get 
to Germany. They assert their dreams as their unconditional right, and 
demand from the European authorities not only proper food and medical 
care but also transportation to the destination of their choice. There 
is something enigmatically utopian in this demand: as if it were the 
duty of Europe to realise their dreams – dreams which, incidentally, are 
out of reach of most Europeans (surely a good number of Southern and 
Eastern Europeans would prefer to live in Norway too?). It is precisely 
when people find themselves in poverty, distress and danger – when we’d 
expect them to settle for a minimum of safety and wellbeing – that their 
utopianism becomes most intransigent. But the hard truth to be faced by 
the refugees is that ‘there is no Norway,’ even in Norway.



full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/slavoj-zizek/the-non-existence-of-norway
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