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Free Speech with Doug Lain

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

The Death Ground Floor Contemporary Example of a Solution

Zizek: The first step would be to insist upon the formal freedoms that you're supposed to have in under within bourgeois society and then the second step would is to organize to resist the forces that emerge to try to to deny those rights being realized. "The worker working class if they was organized to persist and to insist upon its rights under bourgeois law it would necessarily seek greater and greater power politically," he says. Zizek talks about producing the monarch how the form of the monarch is completely different from the rest of society because it's biological, not democratic but yeah it's just a new moment of immediacy I don't really know what these terms mean"

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