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ZIZ218 Cambridge Union (10.11.2018)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Opium and the People

To day, there are two new opiums of the people, and you can guess what they are, opium and the people. I think that thi no longer am a pessimist yor works to day. Let's take the united states. In the last decades in the united states, tramp didn't fall from moon onto the earth. The true enemy is the failure of the liberal consensus. You know why not? Because populism always has some features. It defines populism. This is what precisely we call popolism to day. And for this reason, i cannot go im concluding now."

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