Slavoj Zizek on Communist Manifesto and the new Left (english subs)

Slavoj Zizek giving an interview for Slovene TV after a debate he had with his colleagues about the idea of neo-communism. His thoughts on this are contained in the foreword to the new Slovene edition of the Communist Manifesto.
Original language is Slovene. For subtitles push the CC button.

The original video can be found here:
http://tvslo.si/
***All rights go to RTV-SLO***

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Slavoj
• Zizek
• Žižek
• Left
• communism
• communist
• manifesto
• stalinism
• leninism
• Slovenia

[shaolinkin]

what are these goddamn subtitles everyone is talking about?

[nobodyreally11]

@shaolinkin

Push the goddamn CC button.

[svord000]

bad subtitles

[nobodyreally11]

@svord000

I'll try better next time, OK?

[svord000]

@nobodyreally11 sorry if your offended but i don't need them.

[nobodyreally11]

@svord000

Don't worry, I'm not offended in any way. And I know the quality of subtitles is pretty low.

[TheScepticalSlave]

@nobodyreally11 The subtitles are just fine, some people may need to pause as Slavoj is talking in his native tongue and does not wait about.

Thanks for the upload.

[MultiMetaldemon]

Jaz bi njega nagnal delat v kolhoz, tam nebi imel toliko časa pametovat.

[noprofitmaximierung]

@AirportSheriff The Manifest really has not a lot for us today, i mean more of half is about the conditions and branches of the Social movement at the time. We really have to start new and come up with a new way of offering theoretical solutions to this world crises.

[TheMrAmfortas]

@nobodyreally11 i needed the subs and they seemd pretty elgit. thanks for ur effort!

[AirportSheriff]

@almanacofsleep Well no, Marx was always influenced by classical economists, however, he became more philisophically materialist in his later years, also more radical on colonial struggles, including support for indian national liberation movements. Das Kapital was literally his most famous works and continues to have almost zero flaws while the manifesto has many flaws.

[almanacofsleep]

@AirportSheriff Do you mean his shift away from philosophy toward economic analysis (das kapital)?

[AirportSheriff]

@almanacofsleep He didn't say it was bullshit, but he did change his views drastically and wanted to write a new one. Look it up...