…it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster pursuing its ends regardless of any human or environmental concern is an ideological abstraction, and to insist that one should never forget that, behind this abstraction, lie real people and natural objects on whose productive capacities and resources capital's circulation is based and on which it feeds like a gigantic parasite. {…} the fate of whole swathes of society and sometimes of whole countries can be decided by the speculative dance of Capital, which pursues its goal of profitability with a blessed indifference to how its movements will affect social reality. Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, {…} its violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals with their "evil" intentions, but is purely "objective", systemic, anonymous-quite literally a conceptual violence, the violence of a Concept whose self-deployment rules and regulates social reality.
( Slavoj Žižek )
[ Absolute Recoil: Towards A New ]
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