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Published · transcript-backedSlavoj Žižek: belief
8 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
“With full political liberalization, they would have achieved even more.” I doubt it.”
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- Slavoj Žižek
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- 8 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It is time for China to liberalize. I don’t see them doing that. They seem to be moving in the opposite direction. Here, now, we touch the true problem. Sorry, now I’m not losing time. You know where I am a pessimist? Some of my liberal friends tell me, “Oh, China achieved so much. With full political liberalization, they would have achieved even more.” I doubt it. We don’t know the counterfactual. Speaking of counterfactuals —…
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