If you look at all successful revolutions, they usually happen when power is already weakening. …Freedom is the condition of liberation. In order to liberate yourself, you must be free. Even in revolution, it goes the same way.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057329440076824576 http://bit.ly/2ArsxYl

I’m not against democracy. The point is not to criticize democracy in the sense that we need an authoritarian regime. The key is to ask questions about the representative democracy we have today: is it still able to capture the social discontent

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057329090297032706 http://bit.ly/2RpdWX9

In England…there was a…show on the BBC & people were voting…“who is the most hated person in Britain?” Tony Blair won. But a week later, he won the election. …There is some…dissatisfaction, which cannot be captured by the electoral system.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057328951960449026 http://bit.ly/2LDRR1G

China weathered this financial crisis much more easily than elsewhere . The great danger is that all of a sudden, because of its virtual nature, crisis erupts. What is needed more and more are big radical decisions. In the democracy we have now, it’s difficult.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057327876830310400 http://bit.ly/2SqEowL

in 2008, the banks generally put a limit on borrowing because people were not paying back loans, …this…pushed the economy further down. But in China, the…political power bureau gave an order: “No, you should give people even more credit.“ https://t.co/sY2uruR6K6

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057327651868889088 http://bit.ly/2rYEb8E

The…country can…be in ruin & people starving & then a financial expert…tells you the economy is in a good state. We saw just this after the 2008 crisis. The shock was that nothing happened in reality, but all of a sudden we realized that we were in a terrible crisis.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057321020447703042 http://bit.ly/2TgwWEF

When you chat erotically on the internet, even showing your photos or whatever, you feel like you are in contact with the global world, but you are still isolated in a private space. It’s a kind of global solipsism.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057320690716721152 http://bit.ly/2EN3oLr

Apple… The key is to prevent these clouds from being privately owned

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057320548844404737 http://bit.ly/2PXOHq8

We will have instant access… Everything…accessible, but only…through a company that owns it all:…content and computers. The question is, what is this everything? Everything will be censored. …Global access…grounded in…monopolistic privatization of the cloud

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057320280958398465 http://bit.ly/2ELbrsm

Marx was too optimistic. For Marx, capitalist exploitation has to take place in conditions of legal freedom… All have the same rights formally…but…if you don’t have money, you have to sell yourself… But now,…worldwide capitalism can no longer sustain or tolerate this

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057319056728944645 http://bit.ly/2QK0aPf

global warming doesn’t simply mean that it will get warmer everywhere, it means there will be..extremes. …If global warming continues, there may be…ice age in Western Europe. It’ s a theory about the Gulf Stream: if it gets warmer, the Gulf Stream will no longer reach Europe

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057305416185602048 http://bit.ly/2BzYe1f

American politics is…based on the premise that…the world will be in chaos.. So we…isolate ourselves…& have control over a few vital issues, like oil… And the others?… Let them starve. So communism is once again at the gates.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057303879489122305 https://ift.tt/2Cs8TwN

communism? I like the aspect of common, in the sense that we are facing mega problems where old notions of sovereign states or even issues like ecology are being questioned.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057302803633393664 https://ift.tt/2A7HWNf

In Slovenia, we have a proverb that, if you talk too much, you are afraid something could happen & talk a lot to make sure it doesn’t. It’s a little bit like this with Arab countries. Everybody was saying they needed democracy, but afraid that democracy would finally come about

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057302324316647424 https://ift.tt/2S8zuo7

capitalism was a radical revolution. Because the whole notion of stability has changed with capitalism or even with capitalistic democracy:…[without constant change and growth] things…fall apart. Capitalism changed the whole logic of social space

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057298191241150465 https://ift.tt/2CjvgVg

the problems, to which communism tried to provide an answer, are still here, more than ever. They are returning.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057287546227560449 https://ift.tt/2EyZUMp

What will be the answer? I don’t know. Maybe we don’t have an answer. Maybe it will be a catastrophe, maybe, I don’t know…What shocks me, again & again, is how so-called specialists are proven wrong. …The problems, to which communism tried to provide an answer, are still here

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057285733948506112 https://ift.tt/2SOstsj

Ours is..the..opposite of the…20th-century..in which the left knew what had to be done (establish the dictatorship of the proletariat), but had to wait..for the proper moment… We have to act now,..the consequence of non-action:…We will be forced to live ‘as if we were free’

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056961553365381120 https://ift.tt/2S8MeLa

I don’t share the hope of my liberal friends. The marriage between capitalism and democracy is over. The lesson of Wall Street for me is that the true utopia does not mean we can have a different society.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056959649877057536 https://ift.tt/2EvtlyS

I don’t mean “ revolutionary ” in the sense of killing people, but I mean “revolutionary left” precisely in the sense of certain radical measures which could safeguard, as we would like to see it, the liberal legacy

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056959515298619394 https://ift.tt/2BdquXt

If a new secular left does not emerge…we will find ourselves reaching what in Europe we ironically call “capitalism with Asian values,” which means totalitarian capitalism.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056959303746240513 https://ift.tt/2RQY2So

This should be our message to center liberals: “Ah, you got rid of us, the extreme left, and now you have religious fundamentalists”

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056958702954180610 https://ift.tt/2EoF8zd

fascism literally…takes the place of the leftist revolution: its rise is the left’s failure, but simultaneously a proof that there was a revolutionary potential, dissatisfaction, which the left was not able to mobilize.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056957823979081728 https://ift.tt/2G5R6iR

“Communism is not the name of a solution but the name of…the problem of the com­mons in all its dimensions - the commons of nature as the substance of our life”, says Zizek https://t.co/1seApwJN9U

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056625326145572865 https://ift.tt/2QCw1AH

the supreme irony: as it functions today, ideology appears as its exact opposite, as a radical critique of ideological utopias.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056546465219309568 https://ift.tt/2SyBWUM

The main function of ideological censorship today is…to denounce every critical project as opening a path at the end of which is something like a gulag.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056545812078096386 https://ift.tt/2zP0kKC

the superrich…live in a universe in which, within its ideological imaginary, the “lower class” surrounding world simply does not exist

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056544389093302275 https://ift.tt/2Egghxy

One cannot help but note that one feature basic to the attitude of these gated superrich is fear: fear of external social life itself. …Secluded communities…isolated by an…invisible cupola

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056543419986837507 https://ift.tt/2rmPWoZ

Communism really is an “eternal” idea…in the sense that it has to be reinvented in each new historical situation.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056541735533400065 https://ift.tt/2E3bkHx

Critical leftists have ..only succeeded in soiling those in power… The real point is to castrate those in power.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056540940947677186 https://ift.tt/2rjEc6p

How the market will react depends on…how much people think others will trust…intervention. …We devote our intelligence to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1056539926643331072 https://ift.tt/2zvqAd1