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Stalinism and the Nazism of the Soviet Union
I think even today we don't have a good theory of Stalinism, that's what bothers me. Not any return to it. What fascinates me about ideology is how this is why Yugoslavia, which was relatively liberal, communism interests me. Do you know that in Yugoslavia, it wasn't last we have our own ideology, self-man and socialism? I mean, this literally, Slovenia was a small country. The central thesis of late Frankfurt School is the dialectic of enlightenment. Horrors of 20th century, fascism, Stalinism are not simply regressions to some dark past. They are deployment of a certain totalitarian, whatever we call them, potentials in the project of modern