Slavoj Zizek on the Legacy of the Russian Revolution, World War 1, Lenin, China and so on on the Jacobin Show You can become a member of the Jacobin Show for weekly exclusive interviews here: / jacobinmag
Well they just broke it into 2 clips in hopes of marketing it to the algorithm better, Which is to say they are doing there best at being good propagandists rather than good prefigurativists, and I kind of back that
His comments on the contrast between Lenin and Stalin, and on Trotsky, are extremely interesting. Does anyone here know if he has anything to say - elsewhere - about Rosa Luxemburg, particulary in light of his analysis of imperialism?
The discussion at the beginning of this piece, about how traditional, precapitalist ways of living were able to facilitate the revolution in Russian, so too today, we are returning to pre-colonial systems to fight climate change. Indigenous people are at the forefront of our climate justice revolution. Note for instance, the tremendous work of Indigenous leadership in the Wet'suwet'en territory.
Thanks for streaming. To the Red Terror. Of course, it was horrible. I don't deny it at all. But every talk about the Red Terror should automatically imply its opposite part - the White Terror (that of monarchists etc.). The Kolchak's army as well as that of Denikin had its secret police or intelligence service. The basements of the buildings where those guys worked were stuffed full with prisoners and dead bodies of killed people. Moreover, every part of this conflict that had a more or less organized army had no problem with forced mobilizations, expropriations of food from peasants. Additionally, do not forget the very special "love" of the Russian monarchists for Jews. Accusing only Bolsheviks of committing every horrible crime during the Civil War is absolutely wrong. Surely, it doesn't mean they were completely or almost innocent. No way! Look, can you handle Soviet movies? I would make a proposition. Watch "The Commissar" from 1967. The movie is available here, on YT. In good quality but unfortunately without English subtitles. Well, I do believe there must be no problem to find this movie somewhere in the US. However, having expectations to find in this movie some realistic content (the same thing goes to the Russian/Soviet literature too) should be avoided in any case. The most impressive part of Russian and Soviet art resides not in some stupid realism but in their constitutive nonsense and absurdity (well, the only medicine that works well).
That thumbnail perfectly describes zizeks personality
Thank you for uploading this. Jacobin took the anti-revolutionary decision to put the original behind a paywall.
Well they just broke it into 2 clips in hopes of marketing it to the algorithm better,
Which is to say they are doing there best at being good propagandists rather than good prefigurativists,
and I kind of back that
Thanks a lot for mirroring this.
His comments on the contrast between Lenin and Stalin, and on Trotsky, are extremely interesting. Does anyone here know if he has anything to say - elsewhere - about Rosa Luxemburg, particulary in light of his analysis of imperialism?
To learn a bit more about Wang Huning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Huning
The discussion at the beginning of this piece, about how traditional, precapitalist ways of living were able to facilitate the revolution in Russian, so too today, we are returning to pre-colonial systems to fight climate change. Indigenous people are at the forefront of our climate justice revolution. Note for instance, the tremendous work of Indigenous leadership in the Wet'suwet'en territory.
Thanks for streaming.
To the Red Terror.
Of course, it was horrible. I don't deny it at all. But every talk about the Red Terror should automatically imply its opposite part - the White Terror (that of monarchists etc.). The Kolchak's army as well as that of Denikin had its secret police or intelligence service. The basements of the buildings where those guys worked were stuffed full with prisoners and dead bodies of killed people.
Moreover, every part of this conflict that had a more or less organized army had no problem with forced mobilizations, expropriations of food from peasants. Additionally, do not forget the very special "love" of the Russian monarchists for Jews.
Accusing only Bolsheviks of committing every horrible crime during the Civil War is absolutely wrong. Surely, it doesn't mean they were completely or almost innocent. No way!
Look, can you handle Soviet movies?
I would make a proposition. Watch "The Commissar" from 1967. The movie is available here, on YT. In good quality but unfortunately without English subtitles. Well, I do believe there must be no problem to find this movie somewhere in the US.
However, having expectations to find in this movie some realistic content (the same thing goes to the Russian/Soviet literature too) should be avoided in any case. The most impressive part of Russian and Soviet art resides not in some stupid realism but in their constitutive nonsense and absurdity (well, the only medicine that works well).
Lenin: "Peace and freedom; land to the farmers." This is why Lenin is revered.
All power to the soviets
And then he used this freedom against farmers
The guy is great. Too bad I can't understand him English as second language myself.