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Slavoj Zizek
Philosopher
About the author
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Socialism
#Disguise
#Myth
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#World
#Instinct
#Questions
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Old
#states
#United
#Focus
#Hatred
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Reality
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Want
#Saying
#Today
#Democracy
#Old
#Question
#Rights
#Socialism
#Liberal
#Capitalism
#Tolerance
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Being
#Books
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#People
#Succeed
#Luck
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Failure
#Help
Communism will win.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Will
#Communism
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Now
#Oppression
#Philosophy
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Slavoj Zizek,
Philosopher
#Love