Slavoj Žižek knows why people are protesting in Greece or Spain; but he asks
why is there trouble in such prosperous or fast-developing countries as Turkey, Sweden or Brazil?
Free marker fundamentalism to these people appears to be as much of a threat as other any jihadi fundamentalism, for Žižek the demonstrations in these prosperous ecomonies is a clear sign that the ‘eternal’ marriage between democracy and capitalism is nearing divorce.
These demonstrations indicate the discontent with capitalism as a system, not just with its particular local corruptions; second, an awareness that the institutionalised form of representative multi-party democracy is not equipped to fight capitalist excess, i.e. democracy has to be reinvented.
Global capitalism is inconsistent. So the protests come about even from prosperous countries
A protest or a political movement begins with an idea, something to strive for, but in time the idea undergoes a profound transformation – not just a tactical accommodation, but an essential redefinition – because the idea itself becomes part of the process: it becomes overdetermined.
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Say a revolt starts with a demand for justice, perhaps in the form of a call for a particular law to be repealed. Once people get deeply engaged in it, they become aware that much more than meeting their initial demand would be needed to bring about true justice. The problem is to define what, precisely, the ‘much more’ consists of.
Sweden, Brazil, Turkey people live in these supposedly successful countries but once a demand for 'justice' gets legs then is would appear democracy has to be reinvented.
why is there trouble in such prosperous or fast-developing countries as Turkey, Sweden or Brazil?
Free marker fundamentalism to these people appears to be as much of a threat as other any jihadi fundamentalism, for Žižek the demonstrations in these prosperous ecomonies is a clear sign that the ‘eternal’ marriage between democracy and capitalism is nearing divorce.
These demonstrations indicate the discontent with capitalism as a system, not just with its particular local corruptions; second, an awareness that the institutionalised form of representative multi-party democracy is not equipped to fight capitalist excess, i.e. democracy has to be reinvented.
Global capitalism is inconsistent. So the protests come about even from prosperous countries
A protest or a political movement begins with an idea, something to strive for, but in time the idea undergoes a profound transformation – not just a tactical accommodation, but an essential redefinition – because the idea itself becomes part of the process: it becomes overdetermined.
＊
Say a revolt starts with a demand for justice, perhaps in the form of a call for a particular law to be repealed. Once people get deeply engaged in it, they become aware that much more than meeting their initial demand would be needed to bring about true justice. The problem is to define what, precisely, the ‘much more’ consists of.
Sweden, Brazil, Turkey people live in these supposedly successful countries but once a demand for 'justice' gets legs then is would appear democracy has to be reinvented.
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