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ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Proletariat and the Bindery Class Struggle

The demolition of the culaks was arguably the death of six million ucranians in the famines of the 19 thirties. It's absolutely foolish to make the presumption that you can identify some one's moral worth with their economic standing. And so that was a huge problem. Am marks also came up with this idea, as far as i can tell, of the that's a technical term, crazy idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. That would be all the workers. The problem is the capitalists own everything. They own all means of production and they're oppressing everyone.

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