
ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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Cultural Marxism Is Not a Fetish, It's a Lie.
We are telling ourselves stories about ourselves in order to acquire a meaningful experience of our lives. This is what i call ideology, fundamentally a lie. Truth lies outside in what we do. The term cultural marxism plays the same role as that of the jewish blot in anti semitism. It projects or transposes some immanent antagon son, however you call it, tension of our social economic life on to an external cause. Liberal critics of tramp and oltright never seriously ask how our liberal society could give birth to tramp. In this sense, the image of donal tramp is also a fetish.
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