Philosopher Slavoj Zizeck on Democracy Now- 5/6

World Renowned Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq War, the Bush Presidency, the War on Terror & More
Part two of our wide-ranging discussion with Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He has been called the "Elvis of cultural theory" and is widely considered to be one of Europe's leading intellectuals. He has written more than fifty books and speaks to sold-out audiences around the world. [includes rush transcript]

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[xaver54]

it sometimes seems, that there is only one man on this planet who formulates the right questions. slavoj zizek.

[historywillabsolve]

genius

[CharlesDickens99]

@sqccccccccc Absolutely, I agree. I was criticising Slavoj Zizek who states that the French Muslims were burning down their own mosques at 8.04.

[sqccccccccc]

@CharlesDickens99 Since when in france did we start burning our mosques?

[eotto2001]

allergies? 

[amaro9009]

@michal020988 coke

[michal020988]

What has he in his nose?;> He speaks so fast and rationable...

[CharlesDickens99]

The riots in France were not fundamentalist, they were burning their own mosques.

Mmm.... I think that's quite delusional.

[wid85]

@japicuca

Chomsky has explicity said that telling truth to power is worthless. Power already knows the truth, and likes it. Chomsky seeks (but may not succeed) to tell the truth about oppression to the opressed in order to give them the tools to fight back. In this he heavily relies on the principle of solidarity which holds that obvious opression of one group is usually based on the less obvious opression of others. Poor American tax payers financing imperialism is an example.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Totally agree with him on the gated community,perma subdued civil war-- just look to the 2nd world. That is the future. Some skyscraper developments in China resemble massive castles.

[joumiet]

Imagine welfare state without the influence of Marx. Marx influenced leftist parties and the labour unions - who had to fight hard to make the society better! Then the competition with "socialist" countries forced to reforms too.. Now things are going worse again as the working class is not so unified and class conscious anymore. Right wing fought for a more equal society after french revolution? In my dreams... Zizek "forgot" that capitalism as such makes just the rich richer.

[andyx1205]

All of these socialist philosophies, Council Communism, Luxemburgism, Social Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism, Democratic Socialism, are all very similar.

The biggest propaganda I've ever heard is that Socialism = Marxism which is false.

Karl Marx did NOT invent socialism, socialism existed before Marx. Marxism was simply another major branch of socialism. I'm not a marxist but Marx's Das Kapital is a must read for ANYONE (the book is not about socialism its about how capitalism works).