Slavoj Zizek Quote

El proletariado queda dividido en tres partes, cada una de ellas opuesta a las otras: los trabajadores intelectuales, llenos de prejuicios culturales contra los trabajadores poco cultivados; los obreros, que despliegan un odio populista hacia los intelectuales y los marginados, que como tales son antagonistas de la sociedad. El viejo grito «¡proletarios, uníos!» es, por ello, más pertinente que nunca:

Slavoj Zizek

El proletariado queda dividido en tres partes, cada una de ellas opuesta a las otras: los trabajadores intelectuales, llenos de prejuicios culturales contra los trabajadores poco cultivados; los obreros, que despliegan un odio populista hacia los intelectuales y los marginados, que como tales son antagonistas de la sociedad. El viejo grito «¡proletarios, uníos!» es, por ello, más pertinente que nunca:

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About Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene: [ˈslaʋɔj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.
Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology, his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages and speaks Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, English, German, and French. The idiosyncratic style of his public appearances, frequent magazine op-eds, and academic works, characterised by the use of obscene jokes and pop cultural examples, as well as politically incorrect provocations, have gained him fame, controversy and criticism both in and outside academia.