Multiculturalism each particular culture and some legal space separate from each other
Here is the story of Jewish Lesbians with purple hair and Muslim women together in Bilan as an example of universality, solidarity in struggle.
Tragedy of Multiculturalism
The whole space is constructed with a clear class dimension. The middle class blaming poor red neck working class. The problem when we fight racism don’t focus on the poor confused guys, his son comes home beaten, things are getting stolen from the field and so on … nothing is offered them but just blame. Then we get new rise of anti-immigrant politics with a strong base in poor and working class. We need to break this alliance with anti-immigrant nationalism and working class.
An example of a dirty joke in order to make the point that this is how you reach out to the other, the gypsy. Its not just being open to the other, we should be open to the other in the sense of participating in the same shared struggle.
Anti-Capitalism
fake moral anti-capitalism
Ruthless presentation of actual deadlock: Jack Bauer 24. Season 7. Shift from external to internal enemy. In final episode, Bauer thinks he’s dying, and asks a Muslim priest to his death bed, and says with simple dignity, he’s my friend. What I like it renders open Jack Bauer’s ethical confusion. There is no easy solution offered, no I was doing it for the common good. There is no humanizing, not its a tough job somebody has to do it, we pay the price for it, NO. Ethical political contradiction, legal power and obscene counterpart, there is no way out, no way to feel good morally, I just have to live with it, all humanization is disgusting like Speilberg’s Munich. If we remain within framework of existing coordinates thare is no way out. Present total ethical confusion, noone is covered here.
I agree with Tariq Ali’s critique of Obama, but its a leftist cheap shot, making left feel good, look Obama didn’t do anything, ha this is typical. But Žižek says this is too easy.
Animal Rights Derrida, primordial scene, the primordial gaze of the other, Levinas excludes animals. Žižek I saw a photo of a cat …
What kind of a monster did the cat sees, what were we for the cat, this monstrosity is something to think about. What are we humans for animals. What kind of monsters are we for them.
Critique of Badiou politics of subtraction, establish free territories outside of state power and use violence only as a defensive measure. Badiou goes one step too far, when you don’t have violence in a society, you already have violence to maintain this non-violence. Badiou is conceding too much to the enemy. Class struggle is already violence, peace in capitalism is violence. We should become aware of seeing this violence, which complicates things, we cannot get out of violence.
Žižek’s Jon Holloway story that he repeats again in Zagreb 2013. Capitalists love these non-commercial zones where people relax. Liberated zones. Chiapas non-violent moral authority, now everyone loves them because they are no longer a threat. Islands outside brutal commodification makes capitalism happy.
Here is the Question and Answer The infamous quote about Hitler not being violent enough. And here is Ghandi