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ZIZ013 Left in Dark Times (16.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

CHAPTER

The Problem With Fukuyama

In some sense, I still consider myself a communist. Why? When we talk about the left today, for me in a somewhat simplified way, the problem is Fukuyama or not. The conflict which is presented to us by the media and so on is the main conflict between tolerant democratic openness and fundamentalism. This conflict with which we are bombarded is not the true conflict. It's in some sense a false conflict. Something is missing in the equation between liberal democracy, let's call it vaguely, and Fundamentalism. Both polls are here caught into each other as part of the same self-propelling movement. What is missing is the left. And I hear for Overtor Benjamin

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