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Like Hegel's "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current state of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passively promoting it. | Like Hegel's "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current state of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passively promoting it. | ||
| + | In practice, liberals are not different from conservatives. | ||
| + | Žižek has stated that he has more respect for conservatives, who at least radically contest capitalism and call for new universals, even if they are the wrong ones.<ref>Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 242-4</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Criticism== | ||
| + | Judith Butler has noted that the positions Žižek espouses would, in the USA, be associated with the Right.<ref>Contingency 278</ref> | ||
| + | Laclau condemns Žižek as [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], or else as confused.<ref>Contingency 289</ref> | ||
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| + | Žižek, as a self-identified "old-fashioned dialectical materialist", condemns the political apathy and moral self-righteousnes of modern Western academics.<ref>Did Somebody Say 216</ref> | ||
Revision as of 21:29, 11 May 2006
Anti-Liberalism
For Žižek, liberals are more or less satisfied with the status quo and against the radical act.[1]
Like Hegel's "Beautiful Soul", liberals wring their hands over the current state of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passively promoting it.
In practice, liberals are not different from conservatives. Žižek has stated that he has more respect for conservatives, who at least radically contest capitalism and call for new universals, even if they are the wrong ones.[2]
Criticism
Judith Butler has noted that the positions Žižek espouses would, in the USA, be associated with the Right.[3] Laclau condemns Žižek as totalitarian, or else as confused.[4]
Žižek, as a self-identified "old-fashioned dialectical materialist", condemns the political apathy and moral self-righteousnes of modern Western academics.[5]
