“Communism is today not the name of a solution but the name
of a problem: the problem of the commons in all its dimensions –
the commons of nature as the substance of our life, the problem of our
biogenetic commons, the problem of our cultural commons (‘intellectual property’),
and, last but not least, the problem of the commons as that universal space of
humanity from which no one should be excluded. Whatever the solution might be,
it will have to solve this problem.”
– Žižek, “Why the Idea and Why Communism?”
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“And in the Marxian perspective, utopian socialism
consists in the very belief that a society is possible in which the relations
of exchange are universalized and production for the market predominates, but
workers themselves none the less remain proprietors of their means of
production and are therefore not exploited – in short, ‘utopian’ conveys a
belief in the possibility of a universality without its symptom, without
the point of exception functioning as its internal negation.”
– Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, p. 23
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