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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

Why Theory

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Marxism Without Capitalism

I agree with your implicit critique of Marx, okay, you have some ambiguous statements in Marx and so on. But my big reproach to Marx is, nonetheless, that he's, as I repeatedly wrong, his idea of communism is capitalism without capitalism. He can get it without surplus value, without the excess, without the obstacle, absolutely. What, when Marx says at a certain stage, a relationship production, capital is become an obstacle, yes, but that's why capital is developed, you know, he falls into evolutionary blood. Right? And I think it's linked to his notion that we can overcome contradiction because that's the Hegel's way of formulating the notion of the necessity

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