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Chilean slogan: 'Another end of the world is possible'

example · Chile protests (October) · retold in 5 talks

The October Chile protests' motto was not 'socialist revolution and all will be okay' but 'another end of the world is possible', refusing the single catastrophic end offered by the media. Žižek proposes it as today's motto.

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“Not "we do a socialist revolution and everything will be okay," but "another end of the world is possible."”
“another end of the world is possible”
58:28 Another End is Possible2020-12-17 · 1:17:39
“Another end of the world is possible.”

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The October Chile protests' motto was not 'socialist revolution and all will be okay' but 'another end of the world is possible', refusing the single catastrophic end offered by the media. Žižek proposes it as today's motto., illustrating return to normality,communist opening
58:28 Another End is Possible2020-12-17 · 1:17:39
During the October 2019 Chilean protests, demonstrators used the slogan 'Another end of the world is possible', adapting the alter-globalization phrase, as a darkly honest acknowledgment of catastrophe combined with insistence on political agency over its form., illustrating pessimist optimism,revolutionary hope,apocalyptic politics
Žižek reports a slogan from the 2019 Chilean uprising: 'Another end of the world is possible', not defending the old normal but accepting that this world is ending while fighting for a different post-catastrophic world., illustrating another end of the world is possible,hope through hopelessness,revolutionary imagination
During the Chilean uprising, the protesters' slogan was not 'if we take over the world will not fall apart' but 'we want another end of the world', which Žižek endorses as the correct left attitude to systemic collapse., illustrating doing the impossible,ecology as political chance,revolutionary politics