{Clip} Ian Bremmer on the Daily Show

I really liked the first half of the clip because I think it lays an essential point of Zizek’s political theory which states that late capitalism is NOT in fact the final stage of capitalism. Late capitalism or multinational corporation as the peak of capitalist productivity was a popular theory in Marxist circles for a while. What this recession has shown is that global free markets run by transnational corporations is not the most productive stage of capitalism. We are in fact entering a new stage of capitalism where the State reenters the picture in a critical way. State Capitalism, or as Zizek call it capitalism with Asian values, has ushered in an incredibly dynamic capitalism that could only be built by a centralized repressive political apparatus. The second half of the interview is emblematic of the Utopian mistake all liberals like Bremmer fall into, namely the misguided idea that capitalism as the West knows it can survive indefinitely. Its just a matter of making the free market (a regulated one of course) appealing again. This is absurd. The only alternative to this Authotharian Capitalist future, true socialism, lies with Communism, a form of political and economic organization  outside of the coordinates of capitalism itself.

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