An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Importance of Totality in Capitalism
I am not anti-capitalist in some abstract naive sense, but in the simple sense of what? For example, when you talk about today's global capitalism, don't talk only about countries which function more or less developed western countries. Mention also countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, which doesn't even function as a country. You have local warlords who have all exclusive contracts with big international, mostly mining companies. The metals used in all our computers and so on mostly come from Congo and so on. So the point is that this country which is a nightmare, it doesn't function as a state,. It has the record number of children, direct children, turned into killing machines,
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