We’re hooked (thanks David). This guy is interesting if not anything else. While we are busy booking his tomes from play.com we will continue our vlogging trend with a 50 minute clip with Slavoj Zizek from a Dutch programme called backlight. Find a 50 minute break (lunch?) sit back, listen and react.
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My pleasure. Enjoy the bearded lissshper!
His first answer is very sweet. The contemporary capitalist defence (it’s not capitalism that’s wrong, it’s that this is not really capitalism) according to him is exactly similar to the arguments made by the communist regimes of old. His idea is that it is also equally false, ie. that it was in fact the communist system that was wrong.
But Zizek describes himself as a communist.
Great.
True. But he later stresses that “his” communism/marxism is not the same as the old style communism.
Exactly. That’s what he says the capitalists are stupidly proposing right?
I’m not sure I follow. Distracted while closing shop for the weekend
Berlusconi = Groucho Marx authoritarianism
This guy has no idea what he is on about and is taking cheap advantage of the situation by making soe statements that sound intelegent and will be popular but have no factual underpinnings.
If we want to move towards a fairer society, the key issues to emerge from the present crises ( depression) are the follows
1. the natural objective of any economic system is unemployment not employment
2. Unemployment is the reward for success, enough boats houses furniture travel food anything
3. for unemployment to be rewarded, the system must allow deflation at peak economic periods, something that actuall kills our present system
4. Why does the present system not permit deflation? because the money supply system is in the hands of business, ie the banks. This must be placed firmly and exclusively within the central banking system together with interest rate mechanisms etc…this plus effective regulation against monopolies, otherwises everything stands as is.
une,plyment here means a reduction in hours worked reduction in pay, reduction in the cost of living, reduction in debt burden (hence banks eed to be working under a central banking mechanism).
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