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ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Agitism

In an ironic parallel with, so-called Western Marxism, I'm tempted to call Western Buddhism. The way it functions in our society, I claim it plays exactly the same fetishist role. I claim that we are witnessing today a strange exchange between Europe and Asia. In order to be agitistic, monstrous, so on, fighting all the others, you have to believe that someone, there is someone, you need it effective. And this is what I claim, is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism.

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