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Slavoj Žižek: commitment

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

“I will go into my Buddhist mode, this bullshit, like “clap with one hand, listen to my silence,” or whatever.”

— Slavoj Žižek

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Slavoj Žižek
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commitment
Recorded
8 Jan 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Directly in front of her, then in the front row over here. And we’ll need to compress the answers a bit to get through. 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.…

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