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8 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

“I think we can agree that the idea of a stateless Communist society is kind of stupid, so could we apply the Idiot King — you talked about this in theocracies, where it becomes tyranny when the experts get in charge.”

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8 Jan 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…I’m sorry, I’m very sorry, yes. I will go into my Buddhist mode, this bullshit, like “clap with one hand, listen to my silence,” or whatever. Please, sorry. I think we can agree that the idea of a stateless Communist society is kind of stupid, so could we apply the Idiot King — you talked about this in theocracies, where it becomes tyranny when the experts get in charge. That’s the worst, yes.…

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