Are You Nats Communism?

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Communism doesn't mean i have a secret plan to nationalize gulat, it simply means we know what has to be done. I call communison simply the system which will be able to do this in one way or another. We really live in sad cynical times in the sense that we know where the crisis is but don't act on it. That's the saddest thing. And for me to day that, as many theorists pointed out, we live not just general terms, cynical times.

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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