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@@HansJrgenFurfjord Yes, it is very surprising what you indicated. Possibly, not possible, without specific, continuous support of some cultural industry managers. Already disclosed by Gabriel Rockhill.
@@HansJrgenFurfjord He is one of the only thinkers that actually offers new insights into the left framework. Listening to any other "left" thinker I feel like they are just repeating tired old lines from 20-30 years ago. No one was (or is) convinced by that, a new approach was something that we desperately needed. That's Zizek's contribution, a different baseline for discourse.
That what I learned also because quick decision can be made to save lives where the democracy in my nation 🇺🇸 was created with the electoral college to prevent democracy of one person one vote with equality of women still hasn’t received an amendment like the slaves received.
not really, for a time (~1800 to 1870) in the US, France and the Holy Roman Empire (Germany) there was 'real capitalism', the economy was dominated by small scale enterprise and independent craftsmen. These enterprises weren't set up and run by profit maximising MBA grads but by inventors, craftsmen and engineers. The wealth gap between them and the workers wasn't *that* great. Of course, it shouldnt be ignored that directly or indirectly this was supported by surplus extraction from colonies. Even if the HRE didn't have colonies it gained surplus from French and British colonies by exporting to them.
You know I'm not lying. He actually said it and you know it, he said, WE NEED A STRONGER NATO... He is a Pro Nato posmo puppet. He does not care about the class issues Marx is all about.... he is just the current Focault, another posmo pro status quo thinker that somehow got a reputation of "subversive" just like our pro nato slovenian guy
“No”. (Zizek … he says it all the time! 😂) Get your terms correct. Neoliberalism, to use David Harvey’s (a popular Marxist critic of neoliberalism) definition, found in his “A Brief History of Neoliberalism” is a political-economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism, deregulation, privatization, and reduced government intervention in the economy. Harvey sees neoliberalism as a project aimed at restructuring society along market-oriented lines, prioritizing the interests of corporations and the wealthy while marginalizing the role of the state in social welfare and economic regulation. Harvey’s analysis emphasizes how neoliberal policies exacerbate social inequality and concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few. By this correct definition of neoliberalism I don’t think you can continue to maintain Zizek ever argues as a proponent for neoliberalism as it is commonly understood among those who discuss it and criticize it today. If, on the other hand, you mean that Zizek has been showing a tendency to lean into a philosophy that has attributes that resemble those of classic enlightenment liberalism and it’s espousal of some basic universal ethical principles, especially around the issue of promoting universal enlightenment egalitarianism in the post-Hegelian and post-Marx era we now live in, then I’d tend to agree with you. He’s NOT gonna be a post-modernist if that’s what you want from him you’re not gonna get it. He doesn’t think you can solve large scale material economic and environmental issues with cultural relativism and especially not with small, separatist, or local, identity groups working alone in tiny kumbaya communities of “traditional” econonomic relations, or new relations based on clearly counter factual ideas about gender, or psychology, or anything for that matter. As a purely practical consideration such communities stand no chance against the power of neoliberal capitalism first to invade, then to commodify, then to become owners of all of the cultural products that make the cultural community unique. It’s how capitalism became the world colonizing power it became in the 19th century, and continues to maintain its power over any new cultural development to this day. He does believe that the western enlightenment tradition produced a unique and emancipating universal philosophy that requires only for people to apply it in good faith (and NOT let cultural excuses and biases … all inevitably conservative hold-overs and stubbornness … prevent the creation of the ultimate communist utopia to be enjoyed by everyone). So … he’s not changed … the increased fever pitch of culture war “solutions” and identity group bickering is merely serving better to reveal what he’s always thought. A universal human egalitarianism is the solution that will permit the ultimate destruction and replacement of the capitalist economy which continues to shore up conservative hierarchies, and permit the development of the next stage in human society based on a communist style of economics that is based on universal human rights and a type of post-capitalist human psychology one supposes has yet to be developed. He goes to great pains to show how the human mind exposed to western liberalism and capitalism can be well understood with his own unique kind of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He also believes that without a concerted struggle to defend these universal values and democracy now, the world will suffer generations of unimaginable suffering, death, destruction, and hardship, and that indulging in the “cultural left’s” tendency for self-loathing and refusal to support any universalizing or totalizing movement, even one that vows to defend universal human rights and a future of economic and social justice for everyone spells doom for us. The intellectual west’s move away from material class analysis toward endlessly self-critical cultural analysis is a path to destruction. To expect Zizek to say anything different is foolish. He’s not changed. The discussion around him has changed and is revealing his principles more clearly. They are and have always been part of the western universal human rights liberal tradition (although he will often introduce “provocations” of the Stalinist or Soviet sort about giving “the state” the power to enforce compliance with recognizing these human rights over individuals who might not care to do so freely on their own!) in its Hegelian to Marx branch. With his unique Lacanian psychoanalysis added to explain individual behavior and the power of capitalism over the human mind to create paradoxical behavior often counterproductive to the class interests of the individual in question.
@@B_Estes_Undegöetz utter nonsense. Zizek advocated for the overthrow of Yugoslavia and worked with a pro free market party. Learn history before writing essays
@@ilhamrahim9269 he never took a side on the whole Yugoslavia situation. He merely said it was inevitable that it would splinter once the Titoist regime fell, which he was absolutely correct on.
@@MrTaxiRobThey can, and they have been. Farmland is just the best possible long term investment in a changing climate, and they already are saddled with trillions in fiat dollars they have to put to work somehow.
@@MrTaxiRobWhat is socialist growth? The infinite growth within Capitalism is the profit motive, most leftists don't want socialism with any time of profit motive. And if they do, they usually view market socialism as one of the first steps to actually abolish the profit motive, value form, commodity production, and so on once and for all
I couldn't get a job in History or psychology thus executive secretary until Computer Info Systems because my chauvinist dad died that gave me FREEDOM.
I wonder if sometime you could have a guest on this channel to talk about how the right-wing misrepresents Cultural Marxism. It seems to me that the right-wing calls all kinds of things Cultural Marxist that are ideas that are put forward by intellectuals who aren't Marxist.
@@driannash4843 Maybe I had a revelation after making that comment, haha. I guess the right-wing calls anything that they view undermines white Christian culture: "Cultural Marxism."
@ResistEvolve :: Great, latter, response. It's foolish to expect people to remember a debate that happened "years ago". Some debates are more memorable than others ( Chomsky/Buckley ? Parenti/Hitchens ? ) But Zizek vs Peterson ?? The former is constantly trying to remain relevant by saying off-the-wall shit ; the latter doesn't even have the facts of history to form a convincing argument with the former. After listening to Zizek and Peterson, people go home either driving all over the place trying to get home and the others are lost in space and time. I'll take Zizek if the shit hits the fan ( I'm less likely to get splattered ) ; with Peterson, I end up full of it !
I can't stand the fact Žižek is so blind to one single fact so I need to push this until it reaches him: WE ARE NOT LIVING A VERION OF THE FUTURE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT THE GREEN MOVEMENT. Your notion that green parties were wrong and basing that on the fact that we have more forests today is logically wrong. Our present is the future of many green parties who were active and who build these green policies into actions and policies that shaped what is to come. They were not wrong. Without them, we would have fewer forests.
Adorno and Horkheimer didn't criticize communism?!! did he go literally mad?!! he truly has a talent to spoil everything he says throught a complete stupid inference; he reads other thinkers VERY badly... old Frankfurt school by the way, specially Adorno, has little to do with Habermas!!
This is the best interview of Zizek I have yet heard. Most of the time elsewhere he meanders about post-modern BS with the amusement factor reduced to observing his near-autistic mannerisms. He has a fecund almost febrile mind that constantly produces a stream of consciousness explosion of ideas that can be excruciatingly hard to navigate. In this interview, however, he is surprising controlled and clear - even brilliant at times. Great discussion and extremely a propos.
Yeah except it's just a handful of nationalists here and there, not the government. I'd ask you which political party represents them in the parliament, but you probably wouldn't think or care to look that up. I guess Bandera should have sat on his hands during WWII instead of taking the opportunity for self determination just because the only ones helping him get it were Nazis @@阳明子? Funny how you bootlickers never call out Stalin for the Non Aggression Pact, even though it was much more than the name implies. The Luftwaffe trained their pilots INSIDE the USSR, along with their officer corps. Stalin also had no problem purging Jews whenever his paranoia was acting up...but hey, whatever fits your narrative.
Zizek is definitely not a fan of Azov, but at least he isn't ukrainephobic unlike a lot of people on the left who are ok with racism against Ukrainians.
The interviewer needs to be far more authoritarian, otherwise Zizek will just go on indefinitely saying the same things he has already said a million times before. You should have tried to nail him on the question of imperialism, the BRICS, multipolarity etc. Zizek is notoriously pro-Western and imperialist on many issues, like Ukraine for example. Or the worst example might be that he supported the NATO bombing of his own country Yugoslavia.
@@MrTaxiRob :: Your comment is rational and reasonable ; however, Zizek's mind is not always controlled and consistent. This guy is like countries on a map ! All over the place. Bombing a country ? Bombing a country by the NATO [usa] forces ? Man ! That ain't never good ! Why [?] Yugoslavia ... there was too much Socialism left in the country. (M. Parenti)
Jyotishman, even when Zizek asks you to challenge him and say some things, he didn't let you get more than a couple sentences in before he takes back the platform. It's useful to hear what he has to say, what he thinks about these big themes, etc. (Although he says some things that I think are inaccurate, about China and Uyghurs, some other presumptions I'm not so sure about, etc ...) But really Slavo needs to take a chill pill every 20 minutes or so to let you get a word in edgeways, allow some kind of dialogue to actually develop? 😮😅😂 Maybe a return match would be good. And needs to be more interactive. And prep some critiques on some of his more challengeable positions?
Rem3mber, Zizek prefers early Plate dialogues. One guy talking for hours all the time and every 20 min one guy interrupting briefly by saying, _Yes by Zeus, so it is !_
Kudos to IGL for giving an opportunity for this guy to say his piece. Even if, in my opinion, the majority of what he said is... Let's say... Arguable, to say the least.
@@CynicalBastard sorry, why do you claim the philosophy of history to be only hegelian? - that's just wrong, hegel was teleogical and THAT AINT HISTORY!
The referendum in Poland, that Zizek talked about, was not binding. There were 4 questions presented, the one mentioned here was "Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, in line with the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?" Only less than 4% marked yes to this question. It was a disgusting move by the right-wing government, bcs ordered a referendum on the same day as the vote for the government. The election turnout was almost 75%, the highest in Polish history.
Interesting that Slavoj has some formular of how everyone everywhere should live, and different histories and cultures are not acceptable. I hope I'm wrong about this but fear we are in the realm of the ultimate moral superiority.
@39:00 Zizek loses me when he claims that all traditions are invented, then weilds that point as if it meant that all traditions are thus equaly invalid. No. Old traditions are safer because they did not destroy your elders. Love zizek, but that really was a weak point.
A lot of haters in this comment section, I haven't paid much attention to Zizek -- despite his renown, I followed what he was talking about (most of the time haha). He's kind of all over the map, but I think I followed most of what he had to say. He always touching his nose and rubbing his eyes for some reason?!! Once again I enjoy the diversity of this channel, you guys interview somebody like Zizek he talks about like Heidegger and Lacan... It seems like you have a lot of economists on this channel many of which might not have heard of either (well probably Heidegger maybe not Lacan).
Only in a moderated style. I don't want my homeland to be flooded by people to the point my culture get's diminished. People can learn and visit each other, to form a international alliance and socialist fraternization, but have no inherent right to penetrate wherever they like.
His English is excellent. Do you dislike his accent, or his speech difficulties? He speaks many European languages fluently, so which would you prefer he speak?
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I'm thumbing up your video for the work you do, not because of Zizek.
Zizek can have some good takes
yet the interviewer must kick the vending machine.
Had a laugh, thanks forthat image. Cheers
Hilarious
You are a real 1 for having on Zizek. Good interview.
Teach youth how to seize the day or crisis because never know the moment.
As soon as he said China was oppressing Uyghers, I knew he was full of shit.
😂😂😂 This is insane 38 minutes in, don't know if I can keep listening until the end
@@brianadlich4406 i imagine it was all a little too much for your tiny brain
Zizek is a blithering idiot.@@jodawgsup
@@jodawgsup Zizek is the perfect ideologue for you, since you think you are better than others
@@gauravtejpal8901 "Boo hoo, the insane fascist Slavoj is fascist and insane, cause he's insane and fascist" - Ok, go away now.
I followed zizek for a long time just like i did Tariq Ali, both are absolute elite bourgeoise Trots
There to be darlings of the mainstream.
You literally are subscribed to the social traditionalist patsoc Infrared, the mAgA communists 💀
Zizek: zheh wradiKal thing to iz to Zupport Nato
*sniffs* hegel tells us we must balkanize russia *itches nose*
He's such a fraud it's amazing how he's managed to get away with it all these years.
@@HansJrgenFurfjord Yes, it is very surprising what you indicated. Possibly, not possible, without specific, continuous support of some cultural industry managers. Already disclosed by Gabriel Rockhill.
@@HansJrgenFurfjord He is one of the only thinkers that actually offers new insights into the left framework. Listening to any other "left" thinker I feel like they are just repeating tired old lines from 20-30 years ago. No one was (or is) convinced by that, a new approach was something that we desperately needed. That's Zizek's contribution, a different baseline for discourse.
@@grivza ah yes, Lacan/Hegel/heidegger, a never before seen framework in academic "marxism"
Benign dictators are always best, but unfortunately dictators are almost never benign.
literally everyone here bashing Zizek supports dictators
This is racism, personal freedoms is universal right.
@@robrob9050 the problem is that most people are retarded, they need structure and rules within reason
That what I learned also because quick decision can be made to save lives where the democracy in my nation 🇺🇸 was created with the electoral college to prevent democracy of one person one vote with equality of women still hasn’t received an amendment like the slaves received.
@@robrob9050 What has a dictator as such to do with racism? Why abuse that term against anything you don't like?
So the whole interview is interviewer asking 1 question, and Žižek answering for 1 hour and a half
I also do not agree with Variufakis that capitalism is entertaining to neofeudalism. It has always Bern feudalism
not really, for a time (~1800 to 1870) in the US, France and the Holy Roman Empire (Germany) there was 'real capitalism', the economy was dominated by small scale enterprise and independent craftsmen. These enterprises weren't set up and run by profit maximising MBA grads but by inventors, craftsmen and engineers. The wealth gap between them and the workers wasn't *that* great. Of course, it shouldnt be ignored that directly or indirectly this was supported by surplus extraction from colonies. Even if the HRE didn't have colonies it gained surplus from French and British colonies by exporting to them.
I can’t listen to zizek anymore. His in the closet conservatism is too much
Wait, India is not fascist but China is?
obviously
Yes!!!
they're both fascist
Zizek is a blithering idiot.
india is hindu rashtra….read manusmriti…its worse then facism
Does Zizek include Levi-Strauss in the outside of Adorno & Habermaa versus Heidegger?
He is going to make a bunch of BS about Lenin and especially Stalin. I know that much about him for sure.
Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester
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38:58
42:04
Piss baby crying and shitting some more.
Zizek getting insane day by day
getting more fascist
38:58
@@boi9842 instead of spouting nonsense, how about you substantiate your slander? Fascist how?
@@jodawgsup "Socialism is when NATO bomb your country" -Zizek
@@boi9842 where did he say this?
You guys keep forgetting to add "PRO NATO Slovenian philosopher" in your descriptions, I think that's pretty much accurrate
"I hate Europe and wish Russia would take it over" - Good job, nice comment, 10 outta 10.
You know I'm not lying. He actually said it and you know it, he said, WE NEED A STRONGER NATO... He is a Pro Nato posmo puppet. He does not care about the class issues Marx is all about.... he is just the current Focault, another posmo pro status quo thinker that somehow got a reputation of "subversive" just like our pro nato slovenian guy
@@CynicalBastard Assuming this is a real quote, mind sharing where it's from? (Seriously curious)
True
How stupid or brainwashed one must be to state a bullshhh like this... Slavoj is Anti-Imperialist per se.
Once again Zizek’s verbal diarrhoea in total display. Superficial and sloppy.
Since after Covid, Zizek gave off more and more of neoliberal intellectual vibes while masquerading as a socialist.
he was always like that as far as I knew
“No”. (Zizek … he says it all the time! 😂)
Get your terms correct. Neoliberalism, to use David Harvey’s (a popular Marxist critic of neoliberalism) definition, found in his “A Brief History of Neoliberalism” is a political-economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism, deregulation, privatization, and reduced government intervention in the economy. Harvey sees neoliberalism as a project aimed at restructuring society along market-oriented lines, prioritizing the interests of corporations and the wealthy while marginalizing the role of the state in social welfare and economic regulation. Harvey’s analysis emphasizes how neoliberal policies exacerbate social inequality and concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.
By this correct definition of neoliberalism I don’t think you can continue to maintain Zizek ever argues as a proponent for neoliberalism as it is commonly understood among those who discuss it and criticize it today.
If, on the other hand, you mean that Zizek has been showing a tendency to lean into a philosophy that has attributes that resemble those of classic enlightenment liberalism and it’s espousal of some basic universal ethical principles, especially around the issue of promoting universal enlightenment egalitarianism in the post-Hegelian and post-Marx era we now live in, then I’d tend to agree with you. He’s NOT gonna be a post-modernist if that’s what you want from him you’re not gonna get it. He doesn’t think you can solve large scale material economic and environmental issues with cultural relativism and especially not with small, separatist, or local, identity groups working alone in tiny kumbaya communities of “traditional” econonomic relations, or new relations based on clearly counter factual ideas about gender, or psychology, or anything for that matter. As a purely practical consideration such communities stand no chance against the power of neoliberal capitalism first to invade, then to commodify, then to become owners of all of the cultural products that make the cultural community unique. It’s how capitalism became the world colonizing power it became in the 19th century, and continues to maintain its power over any new cultural development to this day.
He does believe that the western enlightenment tradition produced a unique and emancipating universal philosophy that requires only for people to apply it in good faith (and NOT let cultural excuses and biases … all inevitably conservative hold-overs and stubbornness … prevent the creation of the ultimate communist utopia to be enjoyed by everyone).
So … he’s not changed … the increased fever pitch of culture war “solutions” and identity group bickering is merely serving better to reveal what he’s always thought. A universal human egalitarianism is the solution that will permit the ultimate destruction and replacement of the capitalist economy which continues to shore up conservative hierarchies, and permit the development of the next stage in human society based on a communist style of economics that is based on universal human rights and a type of post-capitalist human psychology one supposes has yet to be developed. He goes to great pains to show how the human mind exposed to western liberalism and capitalism can be well understood with his own unique kind of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He also believes that without a concerted struggle to defend these universal values and democracy now, the world will suffer generations of unimaginable suffering, death, destruction, and hardship, and that indulging in the “cultural left’s” tendency for self-loathing and refusal to support any universalizing or totalizing movement, even one that vows to defend universal human rights and a future of economic and social justice for everyone spells doom for us. The intellectual west’s move away from material class analysis toward endlessly self-critical cultural analysis is a path to destruction.
To expect Zizek to say anything different is foolish. He’s not changed. The discussion around him has changed and is revealing his principles more clearly. They are and have always been part of the western universal human rights liberal tradition (although he will often introduce “provocations” of the Stalinist or Soviet sort about giving “the state” the power to enforce compliance with recognizing these human rights over individuals who might not care to do so freely on their own!) in its Hegelian to Marx branch. With his unique Lacanian psychoanalysis added to explain individual behavior and the power of capitalism over the human mind to create paradoxical behavior often counterproductive to the class interests of the individual in question.
@@B_Estes_Undegöetz utter nonsense. Zizek advocated for the overthrow of Yugoslavia and worked with a pro free market party. Learn history before writing essays
@@ilhamrahim9269 he never took a side on the whole Yugoslavia situation. He merely said it was inevitable that it would splinter once the Titoist regime fell, which he was absolutely correct on.
You hear but you don't listen
I used to find this guy quite fascinating but he's really deteriorated! He has nothing to say that is of substance.
I know you can do it, then. You can come up with constantly new subject matter to talk about, and entertain and inform people about...what?
Zizek “is the father of modern medicine” and you are “Mister Clean”. To use a brilliant and relevant Leonard Cohen apposition.
He is a disgrace.
Capitalism of infinite growth on finite planet is illogical.
and what about socialist growth? China can't feed its people without leasing farmland in the US.
The only nation-states that have implemented population control policies (i.e. two-child policy) are Communist.
@@MrTaxiRobThey can, and they have been. Farmland is just the best possible long term investment in a changing climate, and they already are saddled with trillions in fiat dollars they have to put to work somehow.
@@MrTaxiRobWhat is socialist growth? The infinite growth within Capitalism is the profit motive, most leftists don't want socialism with any time of profit motive. And if they do, they usually view market socialism as one of the first steps to actually abolish the profit motive, value form, commodity production, and so on once and for all
Nice show...Hadji!!! Are you strapped?
I couldn't get a job in History or psychology thus executive secretary until Computer Info Systems because my chauvinist dad died that gave me FREEDOM.
Thank for the subtitles ❤
😂
Rockhill glazers at full throttle in the comments.
I wonder if sometime you could have a guest on this channel to talk about how the right-wing misrepresents Cultural Marxism. It seems to me that the right-wing calls all kinds of things Cultural Marxist that are ideas that are put forward by intellectuals who aren't Marxist.
Zizek made this point pretty comprehensively in his debate with Peterson years ago
@@driannash4843 Maybe I had a revelation after making that comment, haha. I guess the right-wing calls anything that they view undermines white Christian culture: "Cultural Marxism."
@ResistEvolve :: Great, latter, response. It's foolish to expect people to remember a debate that happened "years ago". Some debates are more memorable than others ( Chomsky/Buckley ? Parenti/Hitchens ? )
But Zizek vs Peterson ?? The former is constantly trying to remain relevant by saying off-the-wall shit ; the latter doesn't even have the facts of history to form a convincing argument with the former.
After listening to Zizek and Peterson, people go home either driving all over the place trying to get home and the others are lost in space and time.
I'll take Zizek if the shit hits the fan ( I'm less likely to get splattered ) ; with Peterson, I end up full of it !
Novara media has an excellent podcast on this topic. Please watch it
@@ResistEvolve What is white christian culture?
Didn't like the thunder earlier this week. Nooo
I can't stand the fact Žižek is so blind to one single fact so I need to push this until it reaches him:
WE ARE NOT LIVING A VERION OF THE FUTURE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT THE GREEN MOVEMENT. Your notion that green parties were wrong and basing that on the fact that we have more forests today is logically wrong. Our present is the future of many green parties who were active and who build these green policies into actions and policies that shaped what is to come. They were not wrong. Without them, we would have fewer forests.
Adorno and Horkheimer didn't criticize communism?!! did he go literally mad?!! he truly has a talent to spoil everything he says throught a complete stupid inference; he reads other thinkers VERY badly... old Frankfurt school by the way, specially Adorno, has little to do with Habermas!!
what compagnies like southafrica now need, would be proper social reforms and the pull effect.
This is the best interview of Zizek I have yet heard. Most of the time elsewhere he meanders about post-modern BS with the amusement factor reduced to observing his near-autistic mannerisms. He has a fecund almost febrile mind that constantly produces a stream of consciousness explosion of ideas that can be excruciatingly hard to navigate. In this interview, however, he is surprising controlled and clear - even brilliant at times. Great discussion and extremely a propos.
He is crazy: he keeps saying he wants to know something but don’t stop talking…🙄
Are you crying and shitting right now?
Zizek isn't a serious intellectual. He's just a stooge of empire.
Please, make a point, or go away.
Zizek the clown
27:00 the rant about **apartheid bad , i cry, but there was order** starts
he is not saying it was good. it was what the ground reality the ANC workers explained to him was.
@@jerCy It was just something he made up. There is no way to verify any of his 'stories'
@@gauravtejpal8901 there is actually. Other people have verified it.
You hear, but you don't listen
@@gauravtejpal8901 You're a piss baby.
Adorno wrote a book on authoritarian personalities which covers Stalin.
Adorno is a liberal pedo
Zizek forgot to mention the real vanguard of the international proletarian revolution: the Azov Battalion!
Don't you have any newer dumb talking points, or are you still on that one?
might as well complain about Nazi Germany, since it also no longer exists
@@MrTaxiRob weird how the whole of the Ukrainian government celebrated Bandera's birthday on January 1st, then.
Yeah except it's just a handful of nationalists here and there, not the government. I'd ask you which political party represents them in the parliament, but you probably wouldn't think or care to look that up.
I guess Bandera should have sat on his hands during WWII instead of taking the opportunity for self determination just because the only ones helping him get it were Nazis @@阳明子?
Funny how you bootlickers never call out Stalin for the Non Aggression Pact, even though it was much more than the name implies. The Luftwaffe trained their pilots INSIDE the USSR, along with their officer corps. Stalin also had no problem purging Jews whenever his paranoia was acting up...but hey, whatever fits your narrative.
Zizek is definitely not a fan of Azov, but at least he isn't ukrainephobic unlike a lot of people on the left who are ok with racism against Ukrainians.
Can't take this guy seriously after he argued for a stronger NATO
No
When did Zizek become concerned with only the mistaken 'free flow' of global capital 💔
27:25 actually almost gave me a stroke. So sad!
If you don't have a point, can you shut up?
The interviewer needs to be far more authoritarian, otherwise Zizek will just go on indefinitely saying the same things he has already said a million times before. You should have tried to nail him on the question of imperialism, the BRICS, multipolarity etc. Zizek is notoriously pro-Western and imperialist on many issues, like Ukraine for example. Or the worst example might be that he supported the NATO bombing of his own country Yugoslavia.
Maybe he knows something about it that you don't, because he lived there and you didn't.
@@MrTaxiRob :: Your comment is rational and reasonable ; however, Zizek's mind is not always controlled and consistent. This guy is like countries on a map ! All over the place.
Bombing a country ? Bombing a country by the NATO [usa] forces ? Man ! That ain't never good !
Why [?] Yugoslavia ... there was too much Socialism left in the country. (M. Parenti)
He supported the Nato bombing of his own country? I know he is pro Nato, but this I find hard to believe. That would be bizarre.
Jyotishman, even when Zizek asks you to challenge him and say some things, he didn't let you get more than a couple sentences in before he takes back the platform.
It's useful to hear what he has to say, what he thinks about these big themes, etc. (Although he says some things that I think are inaccurate, about China and Uyghurs, some other presumptions I'm not so sure about, etc ...)
But really Slavo needs to take a chill pill every 20 minutes or so to let you get a word in edgeways, allow some kind of dialogue to actually develop? 😮😅😂
Maybe a return match would be good. And needs to be more interactive. And prep some critiques on some of his more challengeable positions?
Rem3mber, Zizek prefers early Plate dialogues. One guy talking for hours all the time and every 20 min one guy interrupting briefly by saying, _Yes by Zeus, so it is !_
@@farrider3339 🤣 yes by Zeus, so it is!
You should add time stamps for the topics! Nice job btw :)
the french existentialists and post-structuralists...yes they gave me a lot of air space to breath as well...
To answer your question: because Zizek is a CIA asset.
dumbest possible take
@@Thurnishaley6969 Not really. Try, at Midwestern Marx, this: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester
No doubt.
Well, the CIA has so many, they cant keep track, just like Pentagon and money. ;)
Definitely he’s a Marxist academic that seems to offer no pragmatic solutions - ie completely non Marxist precisely what’s good for the elites.
Listen to him you will learn good advises.
22:40 seize the means of distribution!
Zizek is funny!!
i dont think many of Trump's supporters do read. this is in ref. to Slavo's comment on janis V.
He was not referencing his adoring crowds in stadiums but the big money movers who puppeteer Trump
Wtf is this channel 😂
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42:05
Land is everything in 1917
ok
38:58
Kudos to IGL for giving an opportunity for this guy to say his piece. Even if, in my opinion, the majority of what he said is... Let's say... Arguable, to say the least.
Thank you, IGL!
This guy talk too much nosense.
No
@@chemamorado2104 yes
when and where i studied, it was said - if you are a hegelian you are already #lost
So the entire philosophy of history is what? no real matter?
You're lost.
@@CynicalBastard sorry, why do you claim the philosophy of history to be only hegelian? - that's just wrong, hegel was teleogical and THAT AINT HISTORY!
Guest suggestion: Michael Albert, to talk about vision and strategy!
Sure, will reach out soon.
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The referendum in Poland, that Zizek talked about, was not binding. There were 4 questions presented, the one mentioned here was "Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, in line with the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?" Only less than 4% marked yes to this question. It was a disgusting move by the right-wing government, bcs ordered a referendum on the same day as the vote for the government. The election turnout was almost 75%, the highest in Polish history.
Corporate becomes the state.
Buy independent always because your money is your vote.
Arundati Roy 👍
Interesting that Slavoj has some formular of how everyone everywhere should live, and different histories and cultures are not acceptable. I hope I'm wrong about this but fear we are in the realm of the ultimate moral superiority.
How??? Why??? When did he say anything Even remotely close to what you say in your comment??
wtf r u talking abt
I know about Yanis thought exactly as I deduced in 2000.
I had a choice because my parents eclectic
Question: How is Zizek's health ? We want him to live 30 more years.
he better fucking live to the age of Chomsky
Yes, without him we are fcked
@39:00 Zizek loses me when he claims that all traditions are invented, then weilds that point as if it meant that all traditions are thus equaly invalid.
No. Old traditions are safer because they did not destroy your elders.
Love zizek, but that really was a weak point.
A lot of haters in this comment section, I haven't paid much attention to Zizek -- despite his renown, I followed what he was talking about (most of the time haha). He's kind of all over the map, but I think I followed most of what he had to say. He always touching his nose and rubbing his eyes for some reason?!!
Once again I enjoy the diversity of this channel, you guys interview somebody like Zizek he talks about like Heidegger and Lacan... It seems like you have a lot of economists on this channel many of which might not have heard of either (well probably Heidegger maybe not Lacan).
it's called a nervous tick. That's why the nose/eyes touching
At 18 my mind told me Capitalism was WRONG
In which way?
@@robrob9050 Listen to Radhika Dasai & Michael Hudson
Black women from South Africa should always be consulted because I see S A since 1965. Always follow every African nation and Asia.
Communists 😂😂😂😂
Zizek correct about BRIC's
Travel broadens the MIND 👍
Strong nation states bring conflicts that I have fought against since 1970
Philosophy since I was born at dinner table 👍
Ability to see the forest for the trees 😀🎄
I got the same at my house in 60's.
Never let a crisis go to waste .
Free movement of goods must allow same of people.
Only in a moderated style. I don't want my homeland to be flooded by people to the point my culture get's diminished. People can learn and visit each other, to form a international alliance and socialist fraternization, but have no inherent right to penetrate wherever they like.
Zizek is correct about African tribes
Carpe diem
...to post 24 random comments on a single video.
Eager to here what he has to say
...to hear what he has to say.
Zizek always has a residence at my place if he needs anything.
Not at most ne.
Agree with Zizek about the strong nation state because Modi .
I wish that Slavoj would work on his English given he's speaks it so often???
His English is fine? You mean accent?
His English is excellent. Do you dislike his accent, or his speech difficulties? He speaks many European languages fluently, so which would you prefer he speak?
I've heard way worse accents/impediments.
I can understand him perfectly fine and I am not even english myself