
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Marx's Theory of the Commodity Fetishism
The reason why I'm still a Marxist is that I claim that this structure of belief, of displaced belief, you find it in what Marx described as commodity fetishism. And really they do not do what we would expect of a critical eight-aist materialist thinker. But the analysis brings out its theological niceties, metaphysical subtleties. He says here, no, not a thing may appear to you sublime, divine, but it really is just a process of real life struggles, social alienation, whatever.
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