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ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Is There a Human System of Economics Without Inequality?

i just can't understand how anybody could come up with an idea like the dictatorship of the proletariat, especially after advocating its implementation with violent means. And actually think if they were thinking, if they knew anything about human beings and the proclivity for malevolence that's part and parcel of the individual human being, that that could do anything but lead to a special form of hell. The one thing you can say about capitalism is that although it produces inequality, which it absolutely does, it also produces wealth. All the other systems don't. They just produce inequality. I'll leave it at that, i because i'm out of time.

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