Violence (edit title/settings)

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• Marx
• Sloterdijk
• Walter Benjamin
• Wagner
• Heidegger
• Stalin

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• ““systemic” violence, or the often catastrophic consequences of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems.”

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• The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie-the truth lies outside, in what we do.8

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• “systemic” violence, or the often catastrophic consequences of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems.

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• The only true solution is to tear down the true wall, not the Immigration Department one, but the socio-economic one: to change society so that people will no longer desperately try to escape their own world.

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• Reality in itself, in its stupid existence, is never intolerable: it is language, its symbolisation, which makes it such.

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• Is there not something suspicious, indeed symptomatic, about this focus on subjective violence-that violence which is enacted by social agents, evil individuals, disciplined repressive apparatuses, fanatical crowds? Doesn’t it desperately try to distract our attention from the true locus of trouble, by obliterating from view other forms of violence and thus actively participating in them?

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• We’re talking here of the violence inherent in a system: not only direct physical violence, but also the more subtle forms of coercion that sustain relations of domination and exploitation, including the threat of violence.

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• The exemplary figures of evil today are not ordinary consumers who pollute the environment and live in a violent world of disintegrating social links, but those who, while fully engaged in creating conditions for such universal devastation and pollution, buy their way out of their own activity, living in gated communities, eating organic food, taking holidays in wildlife preserves, and so on.

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• There are situations when the only truly “practical” thing to do is to resist the temptation to engage immediately and to “wait and see” by means of a patient, critical analysis.

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• What if the true evil of our societies is not their capitalist dynamics as such, but our attempts to extricate ourselves from them-all the while profiting-by carving out self-enclosed communal spaces, from “gated communities” to exclusive racial or religious groups?

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• In liberal communist ethics, the ruthless pursuit of profit is counteracted by charity. Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation.

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• Israel
• Europe
• Islam
• Paris
• America
• Middle East
• Jerusalem
• Denmark
• Holocaust
• Soviet Union
• Muhammad
• New Orleans
• Palestine

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1. Slavoj Žižek (Author)

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• Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Ethics & Morality
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Violence in Society
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
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