My personal experience is that practically all of the “radical” academics silently count on the long-term stability of the American capitalist model, with the secure tenured position as their ultimate professional goal (a surprising number of them even play on the stock market). If there is a thing they are genuinely horrified of, it is a radical shattering of the (relatively) safe life environment of the “symbolic classes” in the developed Western societies. Their excessive Politically Correct zeal when dealing with sexism, racism, Third World sweatshops, etc., is thus ultimately a defense against their own innermost identification, a kind of compulsive ritual whose hidden logic is: ‘Let’s talk as much as possible about the necessity of a radical change to make sure that nothing will really change!’
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Man, Zizek is so right. I mean, it’s basically proven a fortieri that communism is the way to go, right? I just returned from the USSR, and let me tell you, whooo boy, life is good, there.
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One of his better aphorisms.
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