Saturday, October 8, 2011

Under Capitalism, we need Wall Street

Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, then as Farce (London: Verso, 2009), p. 14:

"The populist slogan 'Save Main Street, not Wall Street!' is thus totally misleading, a form of ideology at its purest: it overlooks the fact that what keeps Main Street going under capitalism is Wall Street! Tear that Wall down and Main Street will be flooded with panic and inflation."

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