Žižek on the financial crisis

I had been wondering when Žižek was going to have something to say regarding the financial crisis. Dow was down 600 points and G7 members were just driving through the gates when I checked the news about an hour ago. From the London Review of Books, "Don't Just Do Something, Talk":

The real dilemma is not ‘state intervention or not?’ but ‘what kind of state intervention?’ And this is true politics: the struggle to define the conditions that govern our lives. The debate about the bailout deals with decisions about the fundamental features of our social and economic life, even mobilising the ghost of class struggle. As with many truly political issues, this one is non-partisan. There is no ‘objective’ expert position that should simply be applied: one has to take a political decision.

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