Mike wrote:
I have to disagree with that I;m not two faced.
I Never stated you were...
Gilly wrote:
I disagree a bit LG. 'Cause some of us try to
discourage Mike.

I think it was that Slovenian philosopher guy he posted on the Dharma thread...kind of put a damper on the thread

Žižek's philosophical and political positions are not always clear, and critiques have called him out on his failure to take a consistent stance. He has claimed to stand by a revolutionary Marxist project, but his lack of vision or circumstance of revolution makes it is unclear what that project consists of. Overall, his theoretical argument often lacks historical fact, which lends himself more to provocation rather than insight..
The failure of Zizek to present an alternative vision has lead critics to accuse him of using unsustainable Marxist categories of analysis and having a nineteenth-century understanding of class. For example, Ernesto Laclau argued that "Žižek uses class as a sort of deus ex machina to play the role of the good guy against the multicultural devils."The use of such analysis, however is not systematic and draws on critical accounts of Stalinism and Maoism, as well as post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis...
One of the interesting aspects to emerge from the Cyprus bailout is the close financial relationship between Cyprus and Russia - and in particular the large amount of Russian money invested in the eurozone's smallest economy. ..
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21831943
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22089641
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek
sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/spirituality-rel...6-dharma.html#110208