https://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/politics/Recent content in Politics on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/zizek-three-nightmares-modern-world/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:49:09 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/zizek-three-nightmares-modern-world/Mekong scam compounds, neo-slavery with organ-harvesting quotas, and Libyan torture-ransom camps — the industrial horrors Žižek wants at the front of Western attention.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/lee-kuan-yew/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:03:37 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/lee-kuan-yew/Fundador do Singapura moderno; primeiro-ministro de 1959 a 1990. Arquiteto do modelo que combina meritocracia tecnocrática, capitalismo aberto e autoritarismo de partido único.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/alliance-refuse-to-pretend-exit-known/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:05:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/alliance-refuse-to-pretend-exit-known/Host’s closing reading: a politics whose starting assumption is that the situation is genuinely deadlocked and no existing tendency — liberal, left or right — has the resources to unlock it.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/neo-slavery-dark-side-digital-capitalism/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:04:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/neo-slavery-dark-side-digital-capitalism/Tens of thousands enslaved in Mekong scam compounds with organ-harvesting for quota failures; concentration camps in southern Libya running weekly torture-ransom videos.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/left-operational-lessons-trump-singapore/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:03:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/left-operational-lessons-trump-singapore/Trump won by stating his extreme position; Mamdani’s ‘radicalism’ is old moderate social democracy; Switzerland and Singapore model organic unity ‘in a good sense’.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/there-is-no-future-despair-to-avenir/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:02:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/there-is-no-future-despair-to-avenir/Hope is deferral; you only act in despair. ‘There is no future’ — the Democratic ‘party of the future’ is Fukuyamaism; Bernie Sanders alone at Biden’s inauguration was avenir.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-hologram-for-the-present/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-hologram-for-the-present/Today we lack the kind of totalizing hologram that capitalism retroactively imposed on all prior history once it contingently emerged. We are in the interval.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-symptom-of-dead-welfare-center/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:58:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-symptom-of-dead-welfare-center/Trump is real and dangerous but not the primary enemy. He is a symptom of the democratic welfare-state center that lost its ideological content and instinct for self-preservation.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marx-balzac-intelligent-conservatives/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:57:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marx-balzac-intelligent-conservatives/Žižek’s dreamed coalition: renewed left plus intelligent — not reactionary — conservatives, the Balzac type who see the deadlocks and know there is no easy way out.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/us-tripartite-political-landscape/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:56:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/us-tripartite-political-landscape/The coming American contest is three-sided: absorbed Republican-Trumpians, old-center Democrats, and a democratic-socialist current deciding whether to split.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-opened-a-space-left-failed-to-open/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:55:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/trump-opened-a-space-left-failed-to-open/Žižek grants that Trump did what the anti-globalization left tried and failed to do: disrupted global capitalism as we knew it, opening a new space.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/what-if-you-can-deceive-all-the-people/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:54:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/what-if-you-can-deceive-all-the-people/Žižek inverts Lincoln: authentic mass awakenings are rare and usually end in catastrophe. What politics remains once the myth of the clear-eyed people falls?https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wang-huning-america-against-america/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:53:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wang-huning-america-against-america/Wang Huning, senior CCP ideologist: the soft-fascist question of preserving capitalism’s productive energy while suppressing the social disintegration it causes.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/capitalism-works-but-must-be-controlled/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:52:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/capitalism-works-but-must-be-controlled/Denying that capitalism organizes productive activity is a fantasy; but free markets exist only when a strong state breaks the monopolies capitalism generates.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/does-the-left-need-a-lee-kuan-yew/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:51:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/does-the-left-need-a-lee-kuan-yew/Žižek backs Sloterdijk’s prediction that Lee Kuan Yew will be the figure of this era remembered in 100 years — the left needs comparable social cohesion.https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/war-communism-obligatory-cooperation/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:50:16 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/war-communism-obligatory-cooperation/Against both voluntaristic cooperation and world government: ‘war communism’ as enforced coordination for the emergency state already arriving.