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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Predictions

Marxists are usually dismissed as a kind of fanatical dogmatics. But sometimes they were incredibly intelligent, maybe just lucky. Friedrich Anders was the only guy who already in the 19th century clearly predicted World War II. He says it's too early today, next 20th century will be the century of these two countries. So, at least empirically, he wasn't an idiot.

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