{"id":374,"date":"2014-04-02T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=374"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:12:07","slug":"zizek-what-europe-should-learn-from-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/04\/02\/zizek-what-europe-should-learn-from-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek: What Europe should learn from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogdaboitempo.com.br\/2014\/03\/31\/zizek-what-europe-should-learn-from-ukraine\/\">What Europe Should Learn from Ukraine<\/a>,&#8221; leftist cultural theorist and philosopher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek\">Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/a> argues that the &#8220;Europe&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s Euromaidan activists were aiming for was not an illusion, so much as it was a Europe that (EU member) Europeans themselves should be aiming to create.<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Predictably, many Leftists reacted to the news about the massive protests with their usual racist patronizing of the poor Ukrainians: how deluded they are, still idealizing Europe, not being able to see that Europe is in decline, and that joining European Union will just made Ukraine an economic colony of Western Europe sooner or later pushed into the position of Greece\u2026 What these Leftists ignore is that Ukrainians were far from blind about the reality of the European Union: they were fully aware of its troubles and disparities, their message was simply that their own situation is much worse. [. . .]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><!--more-->&#8220;So yes, the Maidan protesters were heroes, but the true fight begins now, the fight for what the new Ukraine will be, and this fight will be much tougher than the fight against Putin\u2019s intervention. The question is not if Ukraine is worthy of Europe, good enough to enter EU, but if today\u2019s Europe is worthy of the deepest aspirations of the Ukrainians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogdaboitempo.com.br\/2014\/03\/31\/zizek-what-europe-should-learn-from-ukraine\/\">The entire article can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;What Europe Should Learn from Ukraine,&#8221; leftist cultural theorist and philosopher\u00a0Slavoj \u017di\u017eek argues that the &#8220;Europe&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s Euromaidan activists were aiming for was not an illusion, so much as it was a Europe that (EU member) Europeans themselves should be aiming to create. \u017di\u017eek writes: &#8220;Predictably, many Leftists reacted to the news about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103253,1,103266],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-left","category-uncategorized","category-western-media","tag-zizek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-62","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}