Žižek will make you think. I found him in prison; not everything I read I agreed with, but he kept me thinking. Give him a shot, if you think you are up to it.
Philosopher and author Slavoj Žižek on Donald Trump, hope and history’s lessons (Brisbane Times)
“Capitalism has now transformed itself into a new post-capitalist order. Which is starting to look more like techno feudalism. We are entering a new era. The left just hasn’t yet fully realised it or come to terms with it yet.”
The new populist right, meanwhile, treats communism and corporate capitalism as two sides of the same coin. “Trump pretends he is for total market freedom, but Trump is all about state intervention. He is constantly criminalising his ideological opponents, trying to control what people do, and even how they think,” says Žižek. “This is classic communist logic. We have not seen this since the 1970s, when communism was still the dominant idea in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.”
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He remains cautiously sceptical about the future. “I don’t think we learn a lot from history,” he concludes. “We are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Today, history is radically open. But there is no guarantee that we will survive.”
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