I Don't Need Communism, I Feere Mu Smoiled.

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"I mie yo attachment to the label communist. You can do everything you want without that word, without the concept," he says. "If there are not some great dicident from eastern europe here, then probably i can venture a hypothesis that i did more for the disappearance of east european communisn than any of you in this room."

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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