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The present article presents the emancipation of humanity which has lost none of its power during the economic crisis. The author argues that the status of the criticism of capitalism in Central-Eastern Europe is therefore special. The democratization of the society, which was paralleled by the appearance of the capitalism, needs to be reevaluated with the tools, which require the similar reevaluation.
Key words: capitalism, post-communism, politics, transition, Europe.
According to Alain Badiou, resisting the economical crisis - 'we will contrast the wicked spectacle of capitalism with the real of peoples, with the lives of people and the movement of ideas. The theme of the emancipation of humanity has lost none of its power. Of course the word 'communism', which was for a long time the name of that power, has been cheapened and prostituted. But if we allow it to disappear, we surrender to the supporters of order, to the febrile actors in the disaster movie'1.
After 1989 most of former communist countries were subjected to the regime transformation, which was paralleled by the economical changes. Boris Buden defines the notion of Pots -Communist transformation as a transition zone, characterized by the euphoric utopia of entering the domain of the wishfulfilling democracy2. The withdrawal from the utopia constitutes, according to Buden, the historical end of Post-Communism3. A melancholic tie with the past, which inflicts the essential relationship between the lost and desirable notions, such as democracy - causes the immaturity of the 'children of communism'4.
However the argument of Buden can not be disregarded, the fall of communism primarily caused the incapacity of cathexis5 - the investment of the social libido, which had been well-defined by the desire of the collapse of the totalitarian regime. The open wound had been infected with capitalism, which offered the desire, described aptly by Slavoj Zizek as captured in the chain of signifiers, while the object of desire is persistently postponedó.
The argument of the Slovenian philosopher is illustrated with the work by the Russian artist - Alexander Kosolapov. In 2001, three years after the financial crisis in Russia, generated by the cost of the war in Chechnya and the failed transformation, Kosolapov created the icon of capitalism. The image of Christ, depicted according to the...