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ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Nomadic Immigrants Are Not Proletarians

Refugees are like a stain in the social edifice, always too close to us for a racist. Since they lack a stable place in our society, they stand for universality of being human. How we relate to a refugee indicates how we relate to humanity as such. Refugees come naked only materially and owe them more cling to their cultural identity. Leftists and capitalist dream of the new wave of immigrants that they will be integrated into our capitalist machine but it won't work.

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