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+====Ecology is the new opium for the masses – fear of massive catastrophe allows the hegemonic ideology of capital to sustain itself and short circuit attempts to break the system==== |
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+**Zizek 07** (Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses, http://www.lacan.com/zizecology1.htm) JXu |
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+No wonder, then, that the by far predominant version of ecology is the |
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+enabling humanity's survival. This extreme proposal renders visible the truth of ecology. |
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+====Capitalism causes resource wars, economic collapses, population crises, ecological degradation, kills value to life, and magnifies all secondary antagonisms==== |
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+**Parr '13** Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital, 2013, p. 145-147 |
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+A quick snapshot of the twenty-first century so far: an economic meltdown |
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+must start from the point that after 2050 it may all be over. |
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+====The alternative is a revolutionary politics that reinforces connections between social spheres. That lays the groundwork of radical egalitarianism and liberation of labor==== |
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+**Harvey 11** – Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
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+(Harvey, David. "The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism." Oxford University Press 2011) |
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+The central problem to be addressed is clear enough. Compound growth for ever is |
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+the co-revolutionary points around which social action could converge and rotate. |