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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Eichmann's Negativity in Capitalism Is Inherently Malevolent

Eichmann established a contact with Khagana, the heart Palestinian, so-called, what is secret service of the state before there even was the state. Both had the same interest to get rid of Jews from Europe. Eichmann really was not moved by any person. He took it as a bureaucratic task. The Jewish problem has to be solved. I go to Palestine and not a problem, make a deal, and so on and so on. This is what I meant in a very naive way,. Even with malevolent neutrality, or even another aspect would have been when it's about this objective cynicism of capital. For example, when you are confronting a cruel, terrible crime

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