The Nazis were in this sense play­ing bureaucratic roles in order to enhance their pleasure. Secretly, they knew that the rituals of duty were a pretence to disguise the enjoyment derived from doing something horrible - even..guilt feelings generated here served..their pleasure

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how often those people who pretend to be ultra-tolerant and multiculturalist respond along the lines of ‘maybe this goes in your primitive Balkan, but, sorry, here we are tolerant’ Their very identification of me in this way engenders a specific obscene enjoyment.

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the most horrible thing to encounter for a human being is this abyss of free will; when somebody simply acts out of free will.

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clinging to ethnic identity serves as a protective shield against the trauma of being caught up in the vortex of non-transparent financial abstraction. The true “foreign body” that cannot be assimilated is ultimately the infernal self-propelling machine of Capital itself

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So what path will China take? …their historical enmity towards the bourgeoisie as a class fits perfectly with the progress of contemporary capitalism towards a managerial system without the bourgeoisie—in both cases, as Stalin put it long ago, “cadres decide everything.”

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The goal of Deng’s reforms was to introduce capitalism without a bourgeoisie (as the new ruling class); now however, Chinese leaders are becoming painfully aware that capitalism without a stable hierarchy (brought by the bourgeoisie as a new class) generates permanent instability

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we should focus on…features that characterize contemporary capitalism: the long-term trend of shifting from profit to rent (in its two main forms: rent based on privatized “common knowledge,” & rent based on natural resources); the much stronger structural role of unemployment

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