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Published · transcript-backedSlavoj Žižek: prediction
8 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
“Nonetheless, I think — and you can deny it; I will not — when we Communists take over, you will go to Gulag but for different reasons.”
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- Speaker
- Slavoj Žižek
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 8 Jan 2020
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Yeah, I lived in Germany then. And I remember the cover of Spiegel—they demonstrated exactly with statistics that 40, 50 years after that time — today — Europe will be without forests. I’m sad to tell you, but according to some statistics, today there are more forests in the world than in any point in last 100 years, so I’m over-aware of this fascination of catastrophe. Nonetheless, I think — and you can deny it; I will not — when we Communists take over, you will go to Gulag but for different reasons. [laughter] Where will you go?…
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