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ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Kant's Opposition to Private Use of Reason

To hold on to the idea of communism does not mean that we should retain its first presentation, which was centered on property and state. I think we should learn here from Kant, something, Emmanuel Kant. The lesson is that the domain of state itself is also in its own way private. In the precise Kantian sense of what Kant calls in his wonderful text on enlightenment, the private use of reason. No wonder many radical leftists like Kant, like really radical, who are even too radical for me.

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