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ZIZ002 On Belief and Otherness (2002)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Hypocrisy of Honesty

I don't, I think that here again I refer to a conversation with you who gave me this idea that the beginning of fascism is fascism itself in a way. One should struggle even for notions which appear naturally to belong to the enemy. What makes Nazism repulsive is not the rhetoric of final solution as such, but the concrete twist it gives Nazism to it. Another popular topic of this kind of analysis is allegedly proto-fascist character of mass choreography displaying disciplined movements of thousands of bodies. If one finds them also in socialism, one immediately draws the conclusion about a deeper affinity between the two totalitarianisms. Such procedures are typical of ideological liberalism and they miss the point.

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