
ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Is There a Dynasty of the Proletariat?
Dictatorship of the proletariat is 'technically impossible and an absurd thing to consider', he says. It's a failure, conceptionally, on both demensions. And when you give put people in the same position as evil capitalists, why wouldn't you assume that they would immediately become corrupt? That was exactly what happened every time this experiment was run. He concludes by saying: "This is a call for revolution, but bloody, violent revolution"
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