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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Marx

Why Theory

CHAPTER

The Dialectics of Capitalism

Adam smith is a dialectician that says you don't know what your f dialectic this, it means you do it, and then the opposite results from what you did. And so i think that's the thing, that's why capitalism cannot be properly dialectical. Because even though it takes what i do, it appropriates it and it giv it to the benefit of everyone, it never undermines my initial position. But genuine dialecticst the moment at which some contradiction becomes apparent and some overcoming occurs, my original position is absolutely undermined. I find myself radically torn asunder like icen.

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