Is There an Answer to Revolutions in the Present Contest?

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I am a sincere, not politically correct feminist. I'm organizing next october, new york, bighegelcon an. The majority will be women. And i already brutally apologize to people. No, no, i'm not politicalecorrect femini. It's simply that the best hegelion stot that come from women to day. An we still hold t the idea of capitalism as being its own graysaer. Can you elaborate your critique of the hildelian paradime in the light of the present? When we can see the the danger, the ravaging effects of local capitalism all around us?

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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