How to Rebel
Slavoj Žižek
The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake. The will to revolutionary change emerges as an urge, as an “I cannot do it otherwise,” or it is worthless. With regard to Bernard Williams’s distinction between Ought and Must, an authentic revolution is by definition performed as a Must – it is not something we “ought to do” as an ideal we are striving for, but something we c...
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In view of the difficult situation in which we all in Europe are now, I have quite many things to say. So let me begin. Today, the very idea of a radical social transformation appears as an impossible
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