Are You a Stalinismist or a Communist?

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i view your attachment to the communist label as a kind of nostalgia, like the old stalonist songs. And why not just cast it aside and live free? That's my question. O my counter question is then that obviously what i reap to day around are none the less, i'm more of a pessimist. But you need this nastalgia, right? Why not free yourself by jeddisoning the nastaljia and take the next step? Dot, no, if i were your selpis, this is a case whut i would be asking ito. Ke, let's go onWhat really fascinates me in stalinism ise how

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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