" [...] New Labour advocates tend to stress the relevance of doing without prejudice and apply good ideas, wherever they come from (ideologically). But what are these "good ideas"? The answer is obvious: what works. We face the gap between the real political act of "management of social issues within the framework of existing socio-political relations": the real political act (the intervention) is not simply whatever works in the context of existing relationships, but precisely what changed the context that determines how things . Mean that good ideas are "operating" means to accept in advance the constellation (global capitalism) that sets out what can work (for example, spend money on education and health "does not work" because they hamper the conditions of capitalist profit .)
All this can be expressed using the familiar definition of politics as the art of the possible. " The real policy is exactly the opposite: the art of the impossible change the parameters of what is considered "possible" in the existing constellation . "
All this can be expressed using the familiar definition of politics as the art of the possible. " The real policy is exactly the opposite: the art of the impossible change the parameters of what is considered "possible" in the existing constellation . "
Slavoj Zizek - In defense of intolerance.
I just finished the last semester of master's work, I think (for lack of a couple of notes that I hope good) I have a degree in political science and I discovered one of the best definitions of what political I have gone ahead five minutes ago, while leafing through the text of a training course that I could not go because I was learning about politics ...
That, I return to blog.
That, I return to blog.
