liberal immigration is in interests of ruling class
capitalism has reinvented itself after 1968 with this pomo dynamic, with no left alternative
only original idea of the left return to Keynes, short-term hmm ok. But only global model seriously presented would have been the so-called “basic income” model and Negri-Hardt support it.
Žižek starts his criticism of Badiou according to Badiou: We no longer have a global social theory, just fragmented, all we can do is intervene locally, anti-capitalism has no meaning, capitalism is the air we breathe, historical reality is exerienced as symbolic fiction, he is more Kantian, advocates necessary fictions a very Kantian notion. No history with capital H, the only real is the real of a political act, you need symbolic a story to provide the illusory background to make meaningful the real of political engagment. You need a story to move you to political action, the idea of Communism, for him this is the necessary illusion, you need a story for the REAL of the political engagment. Z rejects this entirely. You need a leader like Lenin, Stalin, the cult of personality. You need to locate the Real is some narrative
criticism of Badiou pt 2 What Ž doesn’t like is Badiou’s idea that you need a symbolic illusion to propgate the real of an ethical committment. you have to tell a mythical story for the Real of ethical committment to work. Badiou wants dialectical materialism without historical materialism. This new stage of capitalism where cultural ideology and poltiical are intermixed, if we don’t confront this we are lost. We NEED more than ever a theory of what goes on today, where are we today, what is happening. We don’t know. It is still capitalism, its an open question: what is happening now in China. I don’t buy Badiou’s abstract ethics of the purity of the idea. He opposes, Dare to Win. The lesson of 21st century to win is to lose in a more radical way. All 3 defeats happened, because you dared to win. No subtraction, we should withdrawal. Žižek disagrees. Cultural production is part of the base today. If we will not do it, in 50 years we will live in a society I might prefer not to live in. Ž says, Dare to win!
I don’t think radical leftists today really want a change
Symbolic Castration So thank you for the castrating experience, less is more. You are much more than your title, you are also a warm human being.