Russia and the Left

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The strength of these new fundamentalisms is not in the state apparatus. It's more in civil society. They are much better organized than the liberal left, or however we call them. I see here the true danger if tramp or a trampion, wins next elections. The idea this kind of a drea political understanding wich us. Ok? Russia has its own right there. And my worry is then the next one.

Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.

In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.

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