SLAVOJ ZIZEK at occupy wallstreet 2.flv

part1: http://youtu.be/yPgz6K-gl7g . transcript: But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of the world where to recycle Coke cans to give a couple of dollars to charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where one percent goes to Third World starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after immense agencies are outsourcing even our love life... MIC CHECK!... We can see that for a long time, we allowed our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back.

"We are not Communists, if Communism means the system which collapsed in 1990. Remember that today those Communists are the most efficient, ruthless capitalists. In China today we have a capitalism which is even more dynamic than your American capitalism but doesn't need democracy, which means, when you criticize capitalism, don't allow yourselves to be blackmailed that you are 'against democracy.' The marriage between democracy and capitalism is over. A change is possible.

"Now, what we consider today possible? Just follow the media. On the one hand, in technology and sexuality — everything seems to be possible. You can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by biogenetics, you can have sex with animals or whatever. But look at the field of society and economy — there, almost everything is considered impossible. You want to raise taxes a little bit for the rich, they tell you it's impossible. We lose competitivity. You want more money for healthcare, they tell you, 'Impossible! This means a totalitarian state.' Is there something wrong with the world where you are promised to be immortal but they cannot spend a little more for healthcare? Maybe we have to set our priorities straight. We don't want higher standards of living; we want better standards of living! The only sense in which we are Communists is that we care for the commons: the commons of nature, the commons of what is privatized by intellectual property, the commons of biogenetics. For this, and only for this, we should fight. Communism failed absolutely, but the problems of the commons are here. They are telling you we are not American here, but the conservative fundamentalists who claim they are 'really' Americans have to be reminded of something: What is Christianity? It's the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? It's an egalitarian community of believers who are linked by love for each other and who only have their own freedom and responsibility to do it. In this sense the Holy Spirit is here now, and down there on Wall Street there are bankers who are worshiping blasphemous idols. So all we need is patience.

"The only thing I'm afraid of is that we will someday just go home, and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case. You know that people often desire something but do not really want it. Don't be afraid to really want what you desire. Thank you very much!"

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[lennchma]

Good job Slavoj, very good job!

[baboonsquadron]

MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH !

[truthnexus]

@truthnexus BTW: I wonder if this guy is affiliated with Popovic, and OTPOR.

Do your homework people or say goodbye to the US forever.

[truthnexus]

Wonderful, the grand Marxist hijacking of our society under the guise of social justice, and the well-being of 'workers'.

You people do realize that we actually don't have capitalism right? We haven't had true free-market in over a century in the US! We have a system of monopolistic-corporatism. Much different.

People that rationalize communism at a time like this, are basically saying we need to put cyanide in the already poisoned water. We really live in a zombie-apocalypse.

[selease]

Get your ass down....shower....learn to speak proper english.

[PHONEYPOLITICS]

the answer and important message for OWS -

watch?feature=iv&annotation_id­=annotation_447387&src_vid=-Ae­hC4IfZnQ&v=ooqMA8455bc

[kemokidding]

Reasonably good coverage and full transcript at bit.ly /otPYjx

[dankurth]

I'm glad he pointed out that they are not communists. With the group speak deal going on, it was hard to tell.

[JCisITavailable]

@tuturura You mean: And so on and so on and so forth... :)

[SuperSithan]

Political changes in a context of such adhesion of the population to the constituted power (ipolitical or economical), they are IMPOSSIBLE.

[SuperSithan]

And the facts are quite simple in this case. In the USA, today, the percentile of the population that wants changes is small and just a tiny fraction of this percentile one went to the streets. The social cohesion around the "American values" (what wants this to mean and even if means military occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and children's bombing in poor countries) it is still very big.