With every little thing that’s plunging the world into chaos proper now, one factor stunning me is, why are Greta Thunberg and Bernie Sanders comparatively quiet? Make no mistake, racism, local weather points and the pandemic are all related. ...
Be they towards the Covid-19 lockdown or police brutality, the protests gripping the US stem from a ‘cash or life’ alternative, the place individuals are pressured to decide on cash. The poor are victims, serving to to cowl up the crime towards them. ...
Slavoj Zizek: Epidemics are like wars, they’ll drag on for YEARS
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We must always cease considering that after a peak within the Covid-19 epidemic issues will regularly return to regular. The disaster will drag on. However this doesn’t imply the state of affairs is hopeless. ...
To take care of the psychological strain throughout the coronavirus pandemic, my first rule is it’s not a time to seek for religious authenticity. With none disgrace – assume all small rituals that stabilize your each day life. ...
Slavoj Zizek: International communism or the jungle legislation, coronavirus forces us to determine
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As panic over coronavirus spreads, we've to make the last word alternative – both we enact probably the most brutal logic of the survival of the fittest or some sort of reinvented communism with world coordination and collaboration. ...
Regardless of Trump’s impeachment victory, the US is coming into into an ideological civil warfare, as a result of the true battle will not be between the Democrats and the Republicans, however inside every of these events themselves. ...
Clear racist component to hysteria over new coronavirus – Slavoj Zizek
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A few of us, together with myself, would secretly like to be in China’s Wuhan proper now, experiencing a real-life, post-apocalyptic film set. The town’s empty streets present the picture of a non-consumerist world comfy with itself. ...
The continuing protests in France lay naked the chapter of the system Emmanuel Macron stands for. A radical change of the capitalist order, which the likes of Corbyn and Sanders advocate for, could be an answer. ...
Calls by Liberals to ‘open our hearts’ to immigrants from poor international locations are about sustaining the established order within the capitalist world. The answer is a radical change within the international financial system which inspires migration. ...
Slavoj Zizek: Large Capital will use each instrument at its disposal to crush socialists like Corbyn
The Labour Get together’s election failure within the UK proves that, for the progressive left to succeed, it must turn into significantly extra revolutionary. The ‘softly, softly’ strategy isn’t working. ...
