The Importance of Over Specialization in Stalinism

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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.

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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