Putin thinks the west is too weak to defend against russia in ukraine. How does the west actually push back against this potential dangerous coalition that you're speaking about? Because putin would argue that the culture wars happening in the west are the things that are weakening them. Iam, my gogter feminist. Don't dismiss liberalism as neor liberalism. Never forget feminnism, socialism, they emerged out of liberal tradition. They meant really the rights of independent white men. But then mary wolstonecraft said, why not women? Then blacks in haiti set. Why not blacks the workers set? That's socialism. Yes, human rights, but you can
Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.
In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.
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