Conversation

Slavoj Žižek:
"In today’s messy times, one should prefer hypocrisy to brutal reality, plus one should prefer the moderate center to the radical Right: yes, this center swims in hypocrisy, but this very hypocrisy leaves the space open for criticism (attacking those in power for not living up to their proclaimed principles); yes, the new populist Right is a symptom of the failures of the moderate center (it is the hypocrisy of the liberal center which enabled the growth of new Rightist populism), but the direct reign of Rightist populism nonetheless remains the threat of an unimaginable catastrophe.
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The sad conclusion is thus that Israel and Hamas/Iran, UK anti-immigrant racists and Muslim fanatics, they all play the same game: the game of total war which can only end in their mutual destruction, and which is a false conflict obfuscating the true cause of troubles, the dynamic of global capitalism. In other words, I am not advocating a soft gradualist politics – quite on the contrary, the only way to lay the foundation for a radical change to come is to avoid false conflicts"
https://slavoj.substack.com/p/against-the-game-of-total-war #zizek