Law in Contemporary Society

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Violence

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  Devising effective solutions will require a serious step back and an entirely new perspective. For instance, instituting a guaranteed income for everyone would be far more effective at reducing violence than increased militarization of the police or harsher sentences. “The only true solution is to tear down the true wall…the socio-economic one: to change society so that people will no longer desperately try to escape their own world.” (Violence, Zizek, p.103-104). But solutions such as these only become visible when one analyzes the subjective forms of violence for what they are; a response to systemic injustice.
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It's true that there's little of interest in the contemporary world on which one cannot find a pronouncement by Slavoj Zizek. A tireless advocate for the freedom of speech, some days he appears to be determined to exercise the entire collective free speech rights of all Slovenians. Sometimes he is immensely insightful, sometimes he's just playing word games.

This is an occasion of the latter class. Force is the common characteristic of criminality and oppression. Denoting them as "violence" plus an adjective is not an advance in analysis. Mr Zizek neither invented the politics we call anarchism, nor the form of historical sociology we call Marx. Treating these subjects as though they emerged as epigrams from his elegant form of highbrow chat does us no service in trying to understand them. That this is only a word game can be seen from where the idea so expressed leads us: to the conclusion that all we need to do is revolutionize society and everything will be fine.

The route to improvement here is to respect Mr Zizek for having sparked an interest in some pre-existing ideas, and to show him the door. Now the pre-existing ideas have been identified (if not exactly directly encountered, because Zizek serves as both Cliff-notes Kropotkin and Monarch-notes Marx) and the question is to what new idea of your own they lead you. That idea of yours the subject of the next draft.

 
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