With an appropriate pause to make sure the movement had global exposure, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler and Cornel West have now graced the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement with their presence, West even managing to get himself arrested more than once.
But it does make you wonder: were they carrying ‘I am 1%’ posters?
(ht: cp)
30 October, 2011 at 6:04 am
“What I’m afraid of is with this capitalism with Asian values, we get a capitalism much more efficient and dynamic than our western capitalism.”
- Slavoj Zizek, “Now the Field is Open”, Al Jazeera, 29 October 2011