"If we take away the obstacle, the very potential thwarted by this obstacle dissipates."

“If we take away the obstacle, the very potential thwarted by this obstacle dissipates.”

- if we abolish the obstacle, the intrinsic contradiction of capitalism, […] we lose precisely this productivity that seemed to be generated and simultaneously thwarted by capitalism
SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119216390425