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

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Is the Communist Manifesto a Call for Revolution?

i'm going to outline ten of the fundamental axioms of the communist man sto. These are truths that are basically held as self evident by the authors. And ah, they're truths that are presented, in some sense, as unquestioned. And i'm going to question them and tell you why i think they're a unreliable now we should remember that this tract was actually written a hundred and 70 years ago. That's a long time ago. I also understand that the communist manifesto was a call for revolution and not a standard logical arg but that notwithstanding, i have some things to say about the authors psychologically.

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