Zizek weighs in

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 13 19:03:30 PDT 2001



>From: Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com>
>Carl Remick:
> > There's a lot of excess arm waving in Zizek's remarks, but his main
>point is
> > clear and unexceptionable: "America's 'holiday from history' was a
>fake:
> > America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere.
>Therein
> > resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it
>will
> > not happen HERE again is to prevent it going on ANYWHERE ELSE."
>
>I think this is certainly the ruling-class view.

Not as I construe it. The ruling-class view is to impose order by shooting at anything that moves. IMO, Zizek is saying that so long as the global capitalist systems persists, breeding social and economic inequity everywhere, desperate exploited people will continue to act in a violent way.

Carl

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