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A review by drjonty
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Žižek
2.0
What?
Zizek is a great writer. He brings together a mishmash of anecdotes jokes, facts and stories interleaved with a perceptive psychoanalysis of the political state of mind. But in the fury and his fireworks the reader ought to stand back a moment and ask "what?" The crux of his thesis is that the response to the refugee crisis has been either racist fear of a leftist come one come all. His proposal is to organize it better. So essentially Zizek constructs a straw man. I've heard no one suggest that ALL refugees should be admitted unconditionally. And his radical solution sound like every single proposal from every political party that isn't antiimmigrant . So far, so Labour party. Or Merkel for that matter. Obviously none too pleased with his own lack of edge he rounds of his pamphlet with another call to communist arms which is not only dated by decades but also by minutes. When he claims Pussy Riot and Wikileaks are all part of the same struggle I can't help but think he must have been reading the news with one eye closed. If someone else wrote this tripe Zizek would have a field day tearing strips off it.
Zizek is a great writer. He brings together a mishmash of anecdotes jokes, facts and stories interleaved with a perceptive psychoanalysis of the political state of mind. But in the fury and his fireworks the reader ought to stand back a moment and ask "what?" The crux of his thesis is that the response to the refugee crisis has been either racist fear of a leftist come one come all. His proposal is to organize it better. So essentially Zizek constructs a straw man. I've heard no one suggest that ALL refugees should be admitted unconditionally. And his radical solution sound like every single proposal from every political party that isn't antiimmigrant . So far, so Labour party. Or Merkel for that matter. Obviously none too pleased with his own lack of edge he rounds of his pamphlet with another call to communist arms which is not only dated by decades but also by minutes. When he claims Pussy Riot and Wikileaks are all part of the same struggle I can't help but think he must have been reading the news with one eye closed. If someone else wrote this tripe Zizek would have a field day tearing strips off it.