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Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Released Sunday, 3rd May 2020
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Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

Sunday, 3rd May 2020
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In the late 90s, political theorists, economists and politicians were talking confidently about the “end of history” and the undisputed triumph of liberal "democratic" capitalism. Communism was written off as dead and buried. But after 9/11, the GFC, the Arab Spring, and the protests spreading over Europe, the ideological gloss of capitalism may be beginning to fade. If the alternative is Putin's muscular Tsarism or China's authoritarian capitalism, then renovating the idea of communism may matter profoundly. For philosophical rock star and brilliant iconoclast Slavoj Zizek, it is something that we should demand, no matter how impossible it seems. The only true utopia today is that things can go on indefinitely the way they are.

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