the rise of Trump is..the effect of the failure of liberal-democratic consensus https://t.co/s47ukyR17T #populismstudies

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This urge to construct the Enemy is another fatal limitation of populism. Today, the ultimate “enemy” is not a concrete social agent but in some sense the system itself, a certain functioning of the system https://t.co/s47ukyR17T #zizek #populismstudies #antisemitismstudies

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Here we encounter the truth of populism: its failure to confront the real of the capital. The supreme populist moment (referendum victory) immediately reverted into capitulation, into confession of impotence with regard to the capitalist order. #populism https://t.co/s47ukyR17T

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Leftist politics today does not need (just) confrontational passion;…it needs…cold rationality. Cold analysis and passionate struggle… need each other. The formula…of a passionate confrontation directed against lifeless universalism is..all too formal

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the ideology of neoliberalism… is anything but “rational.” …It is.. confrontational,…it brutally excludes those who do not accept it under the pretext that they are dangerous anti-democratic utopians. Its expert knowledge is ideology at its purest

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“the idea of world-wide elections..is self-defeating…: "People feel bound by..elections only when they share a basic bond… If the experience of other voters is alien to me,…then…I have..no reason to accept the verdict”“ says Zizek citing Yuval Harari on liberal bias.

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those who advocate a radical opening of the borders to refugees: are they aware that, since our democracies are nation-state democracies, their demand equals the suspension of democracy, since they encourage a gigantic change,…without democratic consultation of its population?

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