Are You a Fachist?

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I don't think there is any link with me clinging to the name communisn and my nostalgia those times, i'm well aware, were more or less nightmare. One reason against nostalga is that i was jobless. Without commonest oppression, i would have been now an unknown professor in the city of lubiana, slavania. At soter times. You remind me of libach, the slavanian rock group, thee there. My friend, my daghtr iam, with them from late, from late 80 years. And now get complicated there. Many leftis who support them are none the less afraid,. Ok, there sta drink totalitarian

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.

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