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George Soros and Southeast Asia

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Uses Soros's currency speculation that caused suffering in Southeast Asia as an example of 'abstract violence', financial acts experienced by victims as pseudo-natural catastrophes.

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“George Soros... engaged in speculations... thereby causing great suffering in Southeast Asia... This is today's abstract violence at its purest.”
Slavoj Žižek 一 Violence2008-01-10 · 1:45:33
“the morning is chocolate, the afternoon it's laxative”
“soros stands for the most ruthless financial speculative exploitation, combined with its counteragent, the humanitarian worry about catastrophic social consequences of the unbridled market economy.”

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Slavoj Žižek 一 Violence2008-01-10 · 1:45:33
Uses Soros's currency speculation that caused suffering in Southeast Asia as an example of 'abstract violence', financial acts experienced by victims as pseudo-natural catastrophes., illustrating abstract violence
Soros spends the first half of the day in ruthless financial speculation ruining millions of lives, the second half giving some of it back through humanitarian programs, the chocolate/laxative structure applied to global capital: the remedy is built into the very operation that produces the harm., illustrating chocolate laxative,capitalism,humanitarian ideology
Soros spends the first half of his day in ruthless financial speculation and the second half in humanitarian activities, embodying the coincidence of the problem and its remedy., illustrating coincidence of opposites,capitalism,ideology