What we must do is move beyond the cliché of refugees as proletarians with “nothing to lose but their chains” invading bourgeois Europe: There are class divisions in Europe as well as in the Middle East, and the key question is how these different class dynamics interact.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/2drAEtw

Many of the refugees want to have a cake and eat it: They basically expect the best of the Western welfare-state while retaining their specific way of life, though in some of its key features their way of life is incompatible with the ideological foundations of the Western welfare-state. Germany likes to emphasize the need to integrate the refugees culturally and socially. However—and here is another taboo to be broken—how many of the refugees really want to be integrated? What if the obstacle to integration is not simply Western racism?

SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/2dxJ93v

The ISIS terrorists…are the Islamo-Fascist counterpart of the European anti-immigrant racists.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/2dxmkBJ

The greatness of the Jacobins was to keep the screen empty, to resist filling it in with ideological projections.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/2dhV0UI

it’s too easy to play this moralistic game - state power is corrupted, so let’s withdraw into this role of ethical critic of power

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I hate the position of “beautiful soul”, which is: “"I remain outside, in a safe place; I don’t want to dirty my hands.

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Back to the…veil in Islam: what if the true scandal this veil endeavors to obfuscate is not the feminine body hidden by it, but the INEXISTENCE of the feminine? What if…the…function of the veil is …to sustain the illusion that there IS something, the substantial Thing, behind the veil? …The “undecidability” of truth, for a succession of veils beneath which there is no ultimate hidden core,“ is a threat in Islam, writes Zizek.

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