
ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Problem of Happiness
Some scandinavian countries, which we considered social democratic parties, were very low while bungler thes was close to the top. Happiness means there is another guy out there. As the joke went in checosavakia: If there is bad weather, a storm, or this communist screwed it up again. The other condition, much more subtle, one is. happiness should be treated as a necessary by product. It comes as a by by product of you working for a cause, and so on. To day, the commonest party is the best manager of capitalism and protector against workers. And that's the paradox of china.
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