Simon Taylor

SHIT         JUST                   REAL                             GOT                                      LESS

…it must be cried out, at a time when some have the audacity to neo-evangelize in the name of the ideal of a liberal democ- racy that has finally realized itself as the ideal of human history: never have violence, inequality, exclusion, famine, and thus eco- nomic oppression affected

The political (read: economic) bankruptcy (read: extra-economic) of the Left has made a necessity of virtuousness (read: morality). What used to be the Moral Right (and under Reagan the Moral Majority) has been displaced by the Moral Left: this is everything from LBGT to the Green rights of environmentalists

Marx’s labour theory of value: there’s something strange about what Žižek calls Lain’s metaphor of the “good Christian boy” who wants to believe. And there’s something strange about the circularity of Žižek’s argument, as a populist philosopher, about the horror of the Left’s reactiveness