“The usual Marxist line of argument runs: 'only successful socialist revolution will render possible the abolition of women's repression, the end of the destructive exploitation of nature, relief from the threat of nuclear destruction…' My thesis is that of Saul Kripke's antidescriptivism offers us the conceptual tools to solve this problem.”

— Slavoj Žižek, book The Sublime Object of Ideology

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