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Onti: I am a strange communist, like marks who said that one can learn more from a conservative like balzac than from all progressives about economy. The only true partners, the true leftis to day, are modest, intelligent, honest sceptics, conservatives. So you cite china as the biggest success story of communism. But is it so successful? It has, right now, the per capital income pretty much exactly equal to mexico. Not so impressive. If you look at capitalist tyan, it's a complete liberal democracy. Life there is very nice. Furthermore, the last 30 years, the air in tyan has become much cleaner, and the air an na

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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