Sunday, October 28, 2018
Debbie Wasserman Shultzs Is TERRIFIED Of Debating Tim Canova. Dodging Debbie! FL Deserves BETTER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMPOr03NF4
Germany's Angela Merkel Is Bracing for Another Election Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qTyooYUWFk
Does Saudi Forensic Doctor Who Allegedly Dismembered Khashoggi Have Ties to Univ. of New Haven?
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Calling Brazil's Presidential Frontrunner 'Neofascist' is Accurate
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Trump's rise is a symptom of a dark and subtle force
24 October, 2018
Slavoj Žižek and British
political writer Owen Jones recently spoke about American politics, the left
and global capitalism.
Žižek sees the success of
President Donald Trump as proof that the left needs a major overhaul.
Žižek said one positive aspect
of Trump's presidency could be the rise of a new movement on the left.
The crucial battle in American
politics today is what's happening within the Democratic Party, not what's
happening against President Donald Trump, according to the philosopher and
cultural critic Slavoj Žižek.
Žižek recently sat down
with political
commentator Owen Jones for an interview that covered the changing
nature of global capitalism, the successes and failures of modern leftist
movements, and the best ways to change existing political structures.
Žižek, a frequent critic of
both capitalism and the shortcomings of the modern left, said liberals focus
too much on social issues, such as LGBT rights and racism, and on new
right-leaning factions. The cost? The majority of working-class voters may not
hear what's in it for them.
"The crucial event today
is not the rise of the New Right," he said. "The crucial thing is the
disintegration of the central-left welfare consensus. This is why the crucial
battle in the U.S. today, it's not against Trump, it's what happens within the
Democratic Party."
Donald Trump is "not the
real problem"
Hillary Clinton and what she
stands for—the status quo, the preservation of global capitalism and even the Republican tradition—is the primary problem for
the left, which Žižek said has ceased to question the fundamentals of the
system.
"Capitalism is changing,
but we simply don't notice this in front of our eyes," Žižek said.
"It's crucial to bear in mind that Trump is, to use your terms, a
reaction–a consequence–of the new processes in global capitalism, which brought
about the disintegration of this welfare state, liberal capitalist
consensus."
Žižek said people are
dismissed as radicals if they identify as Social Democrats today, even though
policy proposals from figures such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are relatively
modest compared to mainstream European democracy in the mid-20th century.
"But I claim, maybe this
is also our hope," he said. "Maybe we will not succeed but we will
trigger a process. Officially, Occupy Wall Stress was a failure. But they laid
the foundation, they fertilized the ground."
Žižek said a similar new
movement could arise as a result of Trump's presidency.
"I see a possible
positive function of Trump," he said. "He from, the wrong side,
nonetheless unsettled this liberal consensus and opened up a space also in this
sense, for a more radical left. My idea is that, in some deeper sense, [there's]
no Bernie Sanders without Trump."
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Disgusting Rehabilitation Of George W. Bush By Michelle Obama & Joe Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNB7-utSxIg
Facebook Purge of Alternative Media Is 'Just the Beginning,' Boasts DC Neocon Operative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXv6igtW3c
Owen Jones meets Slavoj Žižek | 'Hillary Clinton is the problem, not Donald Trump'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnI6E7WiHNE
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