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Good on you Lou, He is a charlatan (and a well paid on at that). Lister members should contrast the Zizek article with Richard Seymour's fine blogs on the same topic. I have disagreements with Richard, but he is a decent human being unlike the super star from Slovenia. comradely Gary On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Tens of thousands of refugees in Balkan countries are desperate to get to > Germany. They assert their dreams as their unconditional right, and demand > from the European authorities not only proper food and medical care but > also transportation to the destination of their choice. There is something > enigmatically utopian in this demand: as if it were the duty of Europe to > realise their dreams – dreams which, incidentally, are out of reach of most > Europeans (surely a good number of Southern and Eastern Europeans would > prefer to live in Norway too?). It is precisely when people find themselves > in poverty, distress and danger – when we’d expect them to settle for a > minimum of safety and wellbeing – that their utopianism becomes most > intransigent. But the hard truth to be faced by the refugees is that ‘there > is no Norway,’ even in Norway. > > > full: > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/slavoj-zizek/the-non-existence-of-norway > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
