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Old 09-09-2010, 04:27 PM   #291
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This fellow, Slavoj Zizek, argues pretty convincingly that liberalism died twice; the death of the peaceful Western utopia on 9/11 and the death of global capitalism during the 2008 Housing Crisis and subsequent bailout.

I'm not a Marxist, but his arguments are interesting.

http://www.amazon.ca/First-As-Traged...4070731&sr=8-1
This sounds like a very interesting read:

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"Do we need further proof, Zizek asks, that Capital is the Real of our lives: the Real whose demands are more absolute than even the most pressing problems of our natural and social world?"
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