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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
Hegel's Historical Necessity
If you can really understand what Stalin was about, you should read his big philosophical writing on dialectical and historical materialism. He said that at the end of 19th century, the working class was still a minority in Russia. But Marx's scientists saw that, although farmers and others were a majority, workers had a great future. So they decided to join the winning side as it were. This is totally anti-authentic Marxist. For Hegel, an act is always blind. You do something you cannot include into it, you cannot including into the act as it were its own result. Not because history is too complex and we don't know what, but it's not out there that
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