
ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Pros and Cons of Capitalism
I'm well aware that if there were to be a big ecological catastrophe, capitalism would immediately turn it into a new domain of market. But what's the problem? Capitalism at a certain level, it works more or less because you know what's your price bitch. And I think the big triumphant proof of this is today's China. The Dalai Lama announced he will not reincarnate, but that he wanted his successor to be elected by some kind of a more democratic procedure. Now comes the irony, you see secularism betraying Tibetan traditions and we are now Chinese communists.
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