The End of Communism in Ugoslavia

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As a student, late sixties, i was going once at least every two months to london, paris or munich. So for us in exugoslavia, the end of communism was not this dramatic experience. And maybe this was my luck, that i had no illusions about, you slav communism. I didn't buy the stupidity of some western communist. You gos ava different. That's what makes my identity through the french experience. But i'm sor if i disappointed. We are approaching problems catastrophic potentials and it will not be able to deal with it within the liberal, democratic, capitalist system. Very simple.

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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