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ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Is There No Ethnic Cleansing Without Poetry?

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing are fundamentally a lie. There is no ethnic cleansing without poetry, he writes. In ex-Eugoslavia, instead of industrial military complex, we had the poetic military complex,. Radvan Karajit Ratko-Bladich, poet and general. He says Europe needs immigrants in order to continue to expand economically. Our birth rates are falling. We are losing our vitality. Let's open ourselves to migrants as a desperate measure to avoid radical change.

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