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  • May 13, 2015 at 11:36 am #24500
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    Just a coupla quotes i read this week:

    “My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham…”
    ― Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

    “We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one can actually change things by “extending” democracy to ple’s control. Radical changes in this domain should be made outside the sphere of legal “rights”, etcetera: no matter how radical our anti-capitalism, unless this is understood, the solution sought will involve applying democratic mechanisms (which, of course, can have a positive role to play)- mechanisms, one should never forget, which are themselves part of the apparatus of the “bourgeois” state that guarantees the undisturbed functioning of capitalist reproduction. In this precise sense, Badiou hit the mark with his apparently wired claim that “Today, the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It’s called Democracy.” it is the “democratic illusion” the acceptance of democratic procedures as the sole framework for any possible change, that blocks any radical transformation of capitalist relations.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

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