Slavoj Zizek Quote
WHEN THE TURKISH COMMUNIST WRITER Panait Istrati visited the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, the time of the big purges and show trials, a Soviet apologist trying to convince him about the need for violence against the enemies evoked the proverb You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, to which Istrati tersely replied: All right. I can see the broken eggs. Where’s this omelet of yours? We should say the same about the austerity measures imposed by IMF: the Greeks would have the full right to say, OK, we are breaking our eggs for all of Europe, but where’s the omelet you are promising us?
Slavoj Zizek
WHEN THE TURKISH COMMUNIST WRITER Panait Istrati visited the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, the time of the big purges and show trials, a Soviet apologist trying to convince him about the need for violence against the enemies evoked the proverb You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, to which Istrati tersely replied: All right. I can see the broken eggs. Where’s this omelet of yours? We should say the same about the austerity measures imposed by IMF: the Greeks would have the full right to say, OK, we are breaking our eggs for all of Europe, but where’s the omelet you are promising us?