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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Marx

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The Number of People Killed Under Capitalism

Onyorsol: Can you even ount the number of people killed by capitalism? Right? B ok, ok. I think that's absolutely true. But i would just say, look, that the left is not on the side of i just would say, it's not a competition between stal and versus capitalism,. Because stalanism actually emerges asa attempt as a right wing reaction to capitalism. And so pushing in the direction of contradiction, rather than trying to find ways to retreat from it, is that’s the leftest project, t trying to found ways to overcome it. The great lesson of german idealism is that we can't. That contradiction is absolute

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