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ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Second Apocalyptic Threat

Vladimir Putin has no personal sympathy for Snowden or Assange. He just helps them to annoy his enemies, he says. One can only wonder at some Western leftists who continue to claim that in spite of his socially conservative stance, Putin poses an obstacle to the American world domination. The moment we fully accept that we live on a spaceship Earth, the task that urgently imposes itself is that of civilizing civilizations themselves,. And this brings us to the second apocalyptic threat, the commons of external nature threatened by pollution and exploitation.

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