gilets jaunes and Podemos
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Massive popular dissatisfaction, the yellow vests in France, Podemos in Spain, that was impossible to translate into the normal multi-party political system.
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As told 4
“gilets jaunes, the yellow vests. an incredible dissatisfaction, it was impossible to translate it into the terms of our normal multi-party political system.”
“Look at what is happening in France, Spain, other Western European countries where you have a vast social dissatisfaction.”
“This is a negative energy, energy of protest which cannot be translated into the existing political forms of multi-party democracy.”13:41 Slavoj Zizek: Will today’s chaos lead to change for the better? | The Streampub. 2022-01-05 · 25:20
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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post-political era
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Ivan Ilyin2Sergey Lavrov1Efimov Dmitri1Jack Butler Yeats1Sama Maani1Adam McKay1Liz Truss1Mario Draghi1
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Every retelling 4
Massive popular dissatisfaction, the yellow vests in France, Podemos in Spain, that was impossible to translate into the normal multi-party political system., illustrating the crisis of political representation
Žižek cites the Yellow Vests in France and Podemos in Spain as examples of social dissatisfaction that either faced state resistance or were neutralized by integrating into the system, losing their explosive political dimension., illustrating democracy,ideology
13:41 Slavoj Zizek: Will today’s chaos lead to change for the better? | The Streampub. 2022-01-05 · 25:20
A new wave of protests (Podemos in Spain, the Yellow Vests in France) expresses dissatisfaction with the developed liberal-democratic system itself, a negative energy of protest that cannot be translated into existing multi-party political forms., illustrating limits of representative democracy,new discontent
Recent protests in Europe were not desires to be more European, but signs of the crisis of existing European civilization., illustrating ideology,liberalism-political-correctness