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“Ideology is: Who will clean your toilet?”

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In this interview to TimeOut ahead of his India tour, Slavoj Žižek says:

What sorts of intellectual movements in India are you curious about?
I am now jumping between two books, a collection of speeches by Dr Ambedkar, and one of the founding texts of ideology of all times, the laws of Manu. Ideology is precisely these daily rituals: how do you enter a house? Who will clean your toilet? Whom you are allowed to touch? I am also reading a book called Red Sun, about these Maoists - the Naxalites. I’m studying that because I did not know they are so strong… And there, of course, as every country does, you pay the price for modernisation. I think this is the crucial problem. If they remain outside the public social sphere, then India is approaching a latent permanent civil war. All these phenomena fascinate me.

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