An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Importance of Over Specialization in Stalinism
Stalin's Soviet Union was much more chaotic and disorganized than a Western liberal democracy nothing functioned so you had all the time to behave as an extreme egg artist. Stalinism that over specialization precisely engenders its opposite it's not productive now my god I believe it would be pro-capitalist. The advantage of capitalism was precisely it's apparently irrational expenditure and so on and so on for me one of the is that you should totally drop this liberal cliches that in Stalinism we will all turn into automatic like puppet subject every free thought was squashed everything was planned total stupidity.
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