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January 6 and the wrong time for the left

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When leftist friends envied the January 6 Capitol mob's boldness ('we should have been doing it'), Žižek replied they live in the wrong time: today the rules have changed, the left's role is to embody moral majority, basic decency, not theatrical insurrection.

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“when on the 6th of January the Trump mob occupied the Congress, my leftist friends were crying: 'We should have been doing it'”
“they get to the seat of power and it's totally empty.”
“My friends were crying because they said isn't this the leftist dream, united people penetrate the seat of power.”

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When leftist friends envied the January 6 Capitol mob's boldness ('we should have been doing it'), Žižek replied they live in the wrong time: today the rules have changed, the left's role is to embody moral majority, basic decency, not theatrical insurrection., illustrating left strategy,postmodern cynicism,moral majority
January 6 realized an old leftist dream, people storming the seat of power, but done by the new right, who found the seat totally empty, exposing that power is not a single central point to seize., illustrating new right social protest,power as texture
Žižek ironically notes that the January 6th Capitol attack looked like a 'leftist dream' of 'united people penetrate[ing] the seat of power,' but highlights the tragedy that the right took this tactic from the left., illustrating fascism-populism,subversive bullshit