Slavoj Zizek Quote
If Western universal values are false, is it enough to oppose them with a particular way of life like China’s Confucian ‘mainstream ideology’? Don’t we need a different universalism, a different project of universal emancipation? The ultimate irony here is that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ effectively means socialism with a market economy (with capitalist characteristics), i.e., a socialism that fully integrates China into the global market. The universality of global capitalism is left intact – it is silently accepted as the only possible frame, and the project of Confucian harmony is mobilized only in order to keep under control the antagonisms that come from global capitalist dynamics.
If Western universal values are false, is it enough to oppose them with a particular way of life like China’s Confucian ‘mainstream ideology’? Don’t we need a different universalism, a different project of universal emancipation? The ultimate irony here is that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ effectively means socialism with a market economy (with capitalist characteristics), i.e., a socialism that fully integrates China into the global market. The universality of global capitalism is left intact – it is silently accepted as the only possible frame, and the project of Confucian harmony is mobilized only in order to keep under control the antagonisms that come from global capitalist dynamics.