Slavoj Zizek - A New Kind of Communism
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- "Let us be realists and demand the impossible: Communism." Filmed Sunday, October 2, 2011 Opera Theatre, Sydney, Australia. Re-uploaded under free-copyright, video is the sole-property of the Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Being able to actually watch the audience being offended by Zizek makes his presentation even better.
You're an evil person
@@Gnolomweb Precicely.
No irony lost, in the adjourning pre-roll to the next Zizek video I watched, the ad says, "If you purchase Belvedere Vodka, 50% of the profits go to fight Aids in Africa."
Keith he has nothing to do with the vodka. He is the content creator not the provider
Sounds like false advertising. 50% is a huge margin
The cost of production of that vodka is ridiculous low... it's an post capitalist vodka.
Wow!! How'd u figure that one out? 🤪 😂😂🤡
@@dhruvpatel-lz6dwhow profound Professor Poindexter
36:42 Is when he begins the "conclusion." Gotta love Zizek!
No. He is low IQ and doesn't know how to think or talk properly (not referring to his speech impediment)
@Андрей Бахарковскй u gay
imagine believing in IQs
I know that this is all super serious but the microphone on the right lines up perfectly with the edge of my cursor. You have no idea how good that feels.
Hilfe, ich bin süchtig nach Vorträgen von Slavoj Zizek!!!
The ending remark really hits the spot, that is the idea of liberal multi-culturalism, on the surface desiring the blend of all cultures, but unstated; that all should behave exactly the same.
The core problem of the capitalist economy model is the mental confusion of income and work (its a fossil of the abrahamistic religions).
Work is not income and income isnt work (otherwise the slaves would have become the richest class on the planet). People need income, not jobs. The goal of economy is to free us from work. If you want to be busy you can do that every day without a boss telling you what to to do and when. If you dont have a goal in live then create it. Dont wait for institutions or the job market to give you orders. There is plenty of meaningful things to do.
Alfred Mayer I agree with everything except "the capitalist economy model"-that is, a lot of people confuse having a job with having an income. My reading of an economics textbook and almost all economics lectures is that economists agree with you: working is paying a cost-giving up leisure time-in exchange for material wealth, either directly in the form of the fruits of your labor or what you buy with the money earned from selling your labor and its results.
Note, though, that the things we all like, want or need-food, housing, ipads, rock concerts, a forest to take a walk in, whatever-are almost all the result of someone's labor. If none of us work, there will be (almost) no wealth. If we all work and we organize our efforts well, there will be plenty. If we all work but organize our efforts poorly, there will be a lot less.
The debate between proponents of concentrated public versus dispersed private ownership in the means of production is thus, at least if we agree that we all want to be wealthy, mostly a debate about facts and not so much about values.
Alfred Mayer nice I like where you're coming from, best not to be an institutionalized robot who is an investment of a large company, self employment probably the least bad thing
hi
BUT MUH INCENTIVES WOT WILL I DO WITHOUT MUH INCENTIVISATION
Michelangelo Goes to the Dole Office
"Oh, I have to do something? How about I study sculpture and then give people beautiful sculptures?
"Aha, no, no you have to do something productive"
"Er...can't I do "something productive" by being a Sculptor?"
"Aha, well you can work and study to be an artist, yes I suppose so"
"You mean art school?"
"Yes, I suppose I do"
"Isn't that expensive?"
"And that's why you have to do something productive!"
"But can't I just get books and talk to other sculptors and practice and learn like that?"
"Yes, well, but then nobody will take you seriously! It's fine as a hobby I suppose"
"But I just want to be a Sculptor. There are so many houses and apartments, can't I just live in one of those and sculpt?"
"You'd be a squatter!"
"No, *Sculptor* is the term"
"LOOK, you HAVE to do PAID WORK!"
"But there's so much wealth can't we share it? I don't mind doing whatever is needed if I can be a Sculptor as well"
"BOLSHEVIK! KILL IT!!"
And round and round we go.
Labour theory is flawed, tho.
A true genious! Im thankful that he is so productive in his intellectual endeavours.
It's spelled "genius"
Oh how nice! He wear his best pijama specialy for Sidney! :)
Zizek is a genius!
Thank you so much for the upload!
He’s wired differently that’s for sure
Thanks Captain Obvious
People are so hostile to Communism and they don't realize that USSR was never communist, they fight against an ideology that has never been practiced on the global scale. If unemployed had an income that would motivate them to get up and benefit society.
But it has to be practiced globally
Non Existent And the reason why the USSR could never reach Communism was imperialism and the fact that they had to keep defending the revolution from external forces of reaction. This meant it was so easy for paranoid individuals such as Stalin to consolidate power as an individual because all the Bolsheviks were so worried about having to defend the revolution.
@@0206SVS hahahaha how cute
Zizek uses "changing the the subject" as an art form
Crazy old bastard.
He's brilliant!
"Communism is the positive abolition of private property, of human self-alienation, and thus the real appropriation of human nature through and for man. It is, therefore, the return of man himself as a social, i.e., really human being, a complete and conscious return which assimilates all the wealth of previous development. Communism as a fully developed naturalism is humanism and as a fully developed humanism is naturalism. It is the definitive resolution of the antagonism between man and nature, and between man and man. It is the true solution of the conflict between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution."
Where is this from?
the Economic and Philosophic manuscripts of 1844, Marx
+Raggle Daggle Important distinction that gets libertarians confused: Private Property and Personal Property are different things. Us Communists wish to abolish private property (the inherently social tools of production and clas, i.e productive forces), as opposed to personal property (things the proletariat own). We stand guilty as charged in wanting to make private property communal.
Nooters Yeah the whole "in communism you will have to share what you own" but last time I checked Uber is capitalist.
There is no comming back to nature! We can develop further, and have peaceful, well organised lifes, but it needs construction of "sunglasses" and painful way of taking them on.
56:13 we live in a society
Its amazing that he seems like he is giving talks every week somewhere on the planet and it looks like he has a 1200 page book on Hegel coming out in a few months!
1200 paged book on hegel + dozens of presentation = cocaine habbit. But hey, he's pretty funny and hard working!
Guy at 1:38 looks like Trotsky
Your saying that as if its not actually him
the thing is with Zizek its all a bit vague
But it's also wonderful and fun!
Thanks for enlightening the planet Poindexter
@outsidemendham a true genius doesn't try to appear smart or clever. they just are
Thank you for finding the words to say what I feel.
and explain what I think but mostly ends up in chaos and gibberish.
A certain part of the audience was going to murder him....
All of the FODI videos for 2011 are on the Sydney Opera House 'PLAY' site. I love the Jon Ronson + Jonathan Safran Foer talks, but they are all pretty interesting.
So is compassion, love and kindness. But first there is a need to stand firm.
communism lite , no gulags then .
You a right! The gulags are underrated!
10:00 oh... my... god lol
dont think of sex, dont think of sex... FUCK
45:16
I really wish the audio quality was better with this. The low audio quality makes understanding his already accented voice and complex line of thought that much more difficult. :/
36:00 Well rent is actually profit, i.e. income without work.
In the dichotomy of rent vs. profit profit is considered the difference between revenue and unit cost and implies that work goes into producing the good. Rent implies no substantial unit cost as is the case with Windows.
Please read about the distinction between nominal and non-nominal profit regarding Marx. And Marx's criticism of the classical liberal conception of profit.
Good grief u 🤪 goofball
Zizek is a modern-day Socrates.
that's why he's a genius.
I find the title highly missleading =(
Great content though =)
It's what Zizek does
he goes on a speaking tour and he'll only talk about the subject in a title on like the first few speeches he does of the tour, and then it just kind of tangents
you're lucky if he even mentions the subject in his titles or even gets a single thought on it out lol
But I meant the TH-cam Title : >
@@DJK-cq2uy ikr 🫠
Please share this video on the speaker's TH-cam channel.
@featheon its another microphone, not sure why he's wearing one though.
Pure feel good ideology. Love it.
Yes, it is cathartic
Cameraman shooting at pretty intellectual girls and their bored handsome boyfriends.
@tyler t If you're being facetious, that's not really a great joke. If you are genuine, you are also wrong.
Intellectual is a stretch!!
Those who would eradicate others are ironically the only ones deserving of eradication.
Your rhetoric is stunning.
Do not waste your time with them. They do not read you, nor even try to do that. All they want is to scan, to yell, to, put it all in one word, conclude.
Reality is for them just an occasion for subjective whim, the observation of the world is not even sketchy. Everything need to be modelled in order to confirm the current preconception.
Anyway, nice post, you really succeeded in getting them angry ! :)
A liberal and a neocon want to con you and I into thinking there's a 'difference'.
"new kind" is important point, no problem idealist or realist, may be...
I am white-hot opposed to command economies, diminishing the sanctity of the individual, and all but the most absolutely necessary forms of globalism...but I cannot deny that Zizek is one of the most important cultural observers of the world, and in my more iconoclastic moments I will yearn to chew upon the genuine challenges he presents.
Wth cares??
did anyone see the funny contradiction.Title: "a new kind of communism". video description "video is the sole-property of the Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas."
6:12. BF only there for GF hahaha
I had chance to listen to his ideas and speeches in period from 1988 till 1992. Back then he was in for capitalism and everything else that he dislikes today. He even did attempt to become Slovenian president, but was during the election really unsuccessful. I don't really know what is his mayor problem, because back home he has a huge problem and not only at the university, but generally in media and daily life. He is not proud to be Slovene and looks at it as an "negative" coincidence.
3) Markets cannot give the answer to nowadays problems
Bull: See the unbeliavable spreading of green energy
(e.g. solar panels cost per Watt fell from 4 €/W to 0,5 €/W in 5 years and still going, just due to global market and capitalism)
This is it... the bitter victory of surrealism.
Defeat Hydra: Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup & Wells Fargo.
There were even two glasses of water on a little table!
Thank God he critiqued Levinas.
I have a strong liking towards many leftist theories. I don’t really call myself a specific form of Socialist though.
As oppose to totalitarism desgise as egalitarianism?
Not being sure what you mean by ' Neo liberal ' , I'm not aware of any major thinker who would dispute you're assertion . They simply say the states services should be held up for critical examination , in order to make them more effective . Not to turn them over to the tender mercies of the ' private sector ' .
Do you really think that markets can give the answer to social inequality or global hunger?
China was not a major player in the wars in the past century. That's why they've become so powerful
They have become powerful because they became capitalist in economy and socialist in social matters, which means killing opposition, harvesting organs from them, etc. They are powerful because they have hoarded useless, worthless American dollars and are now investing it worldwide to make the world collapse because the investment indebts poor and developing countries, so when the world economy collapses these debtors will fall prey to socialist globalists. May good God have mercy on us all, idiots, that allow this to happen.
genius no, highly intellectual, yes
Wow..and your qualifications from the Cracker Jack box???pfffft hmmmmph hmmmmph n pfffft
Not all geniuses are business men....
@vesemre You nit pick examples where he basically states that these things are "not that bad" as in compared to previous history and the rest of the world. Did you miss the, like, 99% of the time when he gives radical critique of the things you say he supports? He doesn't "love" obama, church or power, and thanking an institution for letting him speak is a common courtesy, not a pledge of allegiance. You obviously don't understand his views at all if you say these insane things
Democracy: The freedom to rant about your terrible squalid living conditions, about how bad the government is and about your inability to change anything despite representational government :-)
i didnt say you insulted me i said you tried to insult me i would have to care what you think about me to get insulted
MrDaleaaaa
Hahaha. Your dishonesty is blatantly obvious even here. If you didn't at all care what others think of you or your comments, you wouldn't have answered their comment in the first place. Yet, instead you clearly attempted to clarify what you said earlier.
Reminds me of this story about an estranged wife who drove 160 miles to tell her ex-husband that she doesn't give a damn how he feels about her LOL
keep dreaming.but if you new me you would haven't ever questioned my honer and right a few words is hardly comparable to your story and i get a bit of fun out of telling commies off and using their mindless chants against them
+MrDaleaaaa
Please read an English book before you try getting into political arguments.
Statecraft ≠ Democracy
How old are you? Twelve?
Government sucks, capitalism sucks, the free market sucks, humanity sucks, atheism sucks, religion sucks, and saying that everything sucks sucks, but Zizek can still make me laugh!
20th century communism wasn’t a failure, but the greatest achievement of the working class in history.
Stop repeating the bourgeois slanders, my „communist“ comrade Zizek.
Where are your ideas on the economics and politics of communism and the way to it, socialism?
Marxism-Leninism provides us with ideas and arguments of planned economy, dictatorship of the proletariat, soviets, a communist party, etc.
What are you talking about when you talk about communism? What is it?
Are you sure? What are they?
... rejected the 'feel good' means forgetting that so many have done in the world beginning at semiotic level ... i'm no sure but i found so many wrong statement by Zizek ...
It's always like this. Someone has an idea to the benefit of let''s say our environment. The idea turns out to be a great one. At thsi moment commerce comes along and takes over. But this doesn't make the idea bad. It just shows how deception in capitalism works. The people who buy because of ideology, are the consumers who are not reasoning about buying stuff at all. Unfortunately this people are the majority. And as we know and history pooves the majority is always wrong with their decisions.
Is there a difference between being oppressed by Stalin or Coca Cola?
@outsidemendham exactly because he is a genius!
I love all the cut-aways of sleeping Austalians
How could he go on for nearly an hour without noticing a Cheez Doodle stuck in his beard?
Classic brother
Impossibility = Singularity
44m
Grab your attention
Not entirely sure but it is likely 'Das Kapital'
Zizek wears a suit and tie in bed.
You say suffered under communism" and yet you still will not say where and when. I do not say that I am better than anyone for my experiences and the sufferings of my family. But these experiences of my life have made me stronger and more attuned to those who call themselves "comrade" without any clue as to what they are really doing and saying. So, "Comrade Buka".... tell us all where and when have you "suffered under communism".
...so is philosophy, i claim.
How can this guy call himself a communist
Best comment ever.
Where did Marx write that when "general knowledge" becomes generalised as the source of profit that capitalism can no longer function? Zizek Refers to that in the video but no source.
It's called general intellect - look that up
@@weebgrinder-AIArtistPro american virtual spotted in the wild! cool channel
2:51 and we have nose grab 2:51 nose grab
all these funny shots of hipsters thinking to themselves "glasses look so fucking hot right now"
Really? I was in Prague in 1968. Members of my family was killed in Budapest in 1956. Where were you? Where and when have you "lived communism"?
Name some, please.
I cant wait to see Tarantino's new movie, Django Unchained. Samuel L. Jackson plays a black character who reacts violently to blacks fighting against slavery.
Now I am off to watch the second part of Atlas Shrugged. Nothing cheers you up as watching a psycho "philosopher's" theories on the big screen.
what amazes me most are the women in the audience. where on earth do women like this even exist?
The bigger picture you are looking for, keep looking. You are obviously missing it completely. While you're at it, watch The Corporation and read Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
I lived communism too, "sonny."
Not in Zizek! at least. Though I don't pretend to frequent Zizek's sleeping apparatuses.
Collectivist wealth redistribution guarantees one thing only, An Equal level of miserable poverty for all. Collectivism will produce mediocre results at best because it inspires the opposite of human beings primary motive - that is Incentive. If you can work 2 hours at your job or 12 hours at your job and get paid the exact same - what fool will work a full 12 hours? Capitalism works well because it rewards incentive to improve oneself by the products or service one offers to others.
There is nothing unbeliavable in that- its still nothing in comparison to other resources. Global open market benefits only the most powerful and rich countries, the small and poor just become colonies that produce little of their oun as their economy is no mach for the developed ones and doesnt have a chance to develop to a competative level- history has countles such examples, like India and many others.
Because clothes defines one's mental abilities XD
What the fuck are the assistants laughing at?
Zizek's big idea of providing the “new exploited” (structurally unemployed and unemployable) with a basic income while leaving commodity production in place is social democratic idealism. Until such time as the commodity form itself is overcome, these band aids will eventually become real material barriers, with the law of value continually reasserting itself (as happened with the New Deal in Amerikkka and other more robust social democratic forms of the past) until such time as the inner necessity of capitalism, a society based on the production of surplus value, undermines its own foundations as technology advances and the socially necessary labor time contained in a given commodity gets ever closer to zero. And if Zizek's plan is to rely upon the humanitarianism and good will our new feudal lords so that as this process takes place more and more of the reserve army will be put on the dole (undermining the very function of the reserve army) then he's living in an utterly fantastical realm. Zizek knows better than this how power works. Or at least he should know. It seems we still need to go back over some of the very basics with our new “communists”.
He quoted that. Wasn't his idea. Rewind.
Yes he made reference to the idea, he's referred to it a number of times in his talks. I get the impression that he does in fact see problems with it, and he is not totally for it by any means, based on what I've heard him say about it in his various talks.
The Blank Slate + Land of the Blind + Pol Pot
After a while you begin to see the cracks in Slavoj; he also hides behind endless introspection thus crippling his responsibility. Just as he accuses the world of numbing its guilt through ideology; doesn't he numb his own share in our collective human suffering by his endless introspection and psychoanalysis. Here's what I say - he's right; we can't just drop a coin in the basket and fix the suffering in the world but we can reach out and 'do what one can' - walk away from the argument; go the extra mile - in his case stop investigating how he is being manipulated by ideology (as hopeless as buying expensive coffee to assuage ones debt to suffering) and do what one can!
Make sure in doing what you can you feel good about it and entrench pre-existing structures. Don't EVER question them. All is well.....carry on.......
Anogoya Dagaati the introspection would not be necessary if we didn’t live in a capitalist society
he is genius all right!
like so many other nuts
Belongs to the mentalhouse!
43:02
Given your rhetoric, you really should not be calling someone else sad. I have suffered under communism same as you. If you think being in Prag 68 in some way makes you better, you are no better than the dictators you suffered under. And it seems the suffering did nothing but to harden your heart.
hahaha, good counter-argument. Now seriously, isn't it true what I said?
its annoying how his argument is often drowned out by mindless chortle. seems like the audience is more attuned to the punchline rather than the substance.
And you tell me I am deflecting. Lol.
hey everyone im facing a sort of existential-political crisis rn... would some kind beings ease my conflicted soul????
so ive been a radical leftist as far as i can remember, and im currently between marxism-leninism-maoism and anarcho-communism on the political spectrum. optimistically, i lean toward the former. realistically, it seems anarcho-communism/perhaps libertarian socialism is a more promising route in this world (though i fear neither are very likely to be allowed to thrive in our current world and in the near future). *ANYWAY*, basically all of my fiery political ideology has been superseded by a greater nihilism. i understand nihilism is a dirty word, even in leftist spheres of thinking, but its quite accurate to me. note: im not so much a pessimistic realist. id consider myself a more accepting/"joyful"/"semi-liberated nihilist. the issue is, though, that *my nihilism combined with my hyper-realistic worldview (which leads me to lose substantial faith in the cause of communism and its actual implementation) has led me to feel very disenfranchised and lose passion for my political interests. it seems that in the end, it isnt clearly worth fighting for my ultimate desires for the world bc they will either fail and my life will have been wasted (sure, for a righteous cause.. but still- is this even worth it either?), or they will perhaps be implemented for a time and history shall advance until some humans fuck everything up again. pls help mehhh.*
There are no communist nations on the planet and there have never been any. Nobody has tried it yet. Why do you refer to the USSR as communist? They have never claimed to be communists. They have been a "Social Republic" by their defintion. But label is not content. In my definition the USSR was a military dictatorship with planned economy. The predikate "Socialistic" in the name doesn't define anything. A good deluding naming example is "German Democratic Republic" aka "East-Germany".