Arab Spring is based on capitalism and consumption, resulting in anti-democratic attempts to show market-based requirements
Hanieh 11
Adam, Department of Development Studies @ School of Orientation and African Studies, Center for development policy and research, Egypt’s “Orderly Economic Transition:” Accelerated Structural adjustment under a Democratic Veneer?, Online 11
This is a new form of the so-called
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instead of its normal functioning.
Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4
(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut
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‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.
Capitalism led by the United States creates the economic difference and defiance of US initiatives in the Middle East culminating in colonialism, imperialism, war and authoritarianism– only a rejection of these forms can allow for a Universal
Kraidy 8
Marwan, U of Penn Prof, 1/1, Arab Media and US Policy: A public Diplomacy reset, U of Penn Scholarly Commons, Scholar
US policy assumes that the main reasons for
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does not care about the weak and the poor.
Alternative: Completely withdraw from the ideology of capital
This is essential to destroying the fetish which allows capital to survive
Johnston 4
Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory, 2K4
(Adrian, The Cynics Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Dec. Vol 9 Iss 3)
Perhaps the absence of a detailed
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commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism").
