the..chauvinist scenario:…all the time I dream, “if my wife were to disappear…it would open up new life for me with the mistress.” You know what every psychoanalyst will tell you quite often happens? That then, for some reason, wife goes away, you lose the mistress, also.

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what you want is not really to live with the mistress but to keep her at a distance as an object of desire about which you dream. And this is not just an excessive situation. I claim that this is how things function. We don’t really want what we think we desire.

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Marx traced it but he wasn’t radical enough. Marx’s dream of communism was that we can get capitalist dynamics without the obstacle

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Goebbels’ Totaler Krieg speech in early 1943. He does something ingenious in a terrifying way. All he promises to German people is more suffering. He says: “Do you want a war that will be so total that you cannot even imagine how much you will suffer?” And they all cheer

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I agree with its goals.. but think about the figure…silently presupposed by political correctness, its obsession with harassment and victimisation, we are always threatened. …The vision beneath political correctness is very sad, a vision of ‘we are all potential victims’.

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We have to go through capitalism, but at the same time…move on, not because I am a utopian… …Capitalism is approaching a crisis in the sense that the problems it encounters today…it will not be able to resolve on its own.

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our late-capitalist reality in which total sexual permissiveness causes anxiety and impotence or frigidity instead of liberation

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