I love how he always starts his conclusions at the middle of the talks.

Let's be glad that we still have political philosophers like Zizek, he shows that the very essence of marxist thought is still here whilst proven to be falsifiable. Marxism can and should be reformed according to different times. Let's preserve what basis marx has laid out for us and use it wisely. If we are to ignore marxist thought then as he points out, we are simply capitalists with a human face.

@AgentHomer

9 жыл бұрын

***** let me guess, you hate foreigners, don't you? you believe people should stay put where they are born, right? different skin colors shouldn't mix, according to you, right? also it quite so happens that marxism is mostly famous for trying to bring an end to state and capitalism. One more thing: we love culture, but you are right about the rest, we do believe all these things (religion, patriotism, distinct races, nations…) belong to the dustbin of history…

@AgentHomer

9 жыл бұрын

farrelliux So tell me, what reforms does Marxism need? I'm not trying to imply Marxism has all the answers, I'm genuinely interested! While I'm wary of revisionism (which is something entirely different than trying to further Marxist theory, revisionism is to marxism like intelligent design is to darwinism), Marxism can never fall into dogmatism.

@sambutler9927

9 жыл бұрын

***** "Marxism is a state capitalistic ideology that sees culture, religion, patriotism and ethnicity as a source of perversity" What are you talking about?

@AgentHomer

9 жыл бұрын

***** He's merely drawing attention to the fact that you are so mistaken that your statement appears ridiculous. I don't know why news hasn't broken to you yet, but Marxism is out to abolish the state and capitalism, not join the two. You are sort of right about religion and patriotism. Marxists are not intolerant to religion in general, sometimes they fight their worldly representatives, but Marxists are mostly people which hope that in free societies, people will see through religion on themselves. What they see as a perversity is the popularized version of religion so widely disseminated, which is merely an ideology full of lies keeping the people down and presenting them with a pie and the sky. Patriotism in the sense of putting one nation above the rest is merely a perversity to Marxists. However, Marxists love culture, people like Adorno, Benjamin or indeed Zizek can't stop talking about it. They are critical of many aspects of mainstream and elite culture, but that is just because they want to save it from becoming an instrument of subjection. And by Marxists, I mean people like myself.

@AgentHomer

9 жыл бұрын

***** oh, so you're not a conservative? this is exciting, what are you? you're against democracy, both major bourgeois political philosophies (conservatism and liberalism) and you hate capitalism but love Jesus, so my guess is: fascist? Or are you some other kind of anti-modern reactionary? Oh, and you're right, I'm a demon from hell and I do want world domination, no catching me by surprise that way, buddy. But how on earth I'm a sectarian?

the delivery on that joke was quality

i've listened to this lecture like a zillion times and it always owns

2024 and this speech is still one of my favorites.

one of my favourite speeches by now. srsly

“How can you be a revolutionary today” - at the core of what motivates someone

zizek's ability to present his arguments in a practical method is like awesome, he provides meaningful, simple examples which easily explains his ideas without insulting the listener which says more about where he comes from rather then a school of thought he practices, I guess this is more for Slovenians, whatever you teach your children to produce this guy, the world needs more of it.

This video made my day. Thank you!

i love him as well

Years later, and this is still relevant and insightful analysis into ideology and its function in global capitalism.

His ball analogy has officially made him the coolest philosopher ever.

Excellent: "...an ominous moment of awareness." Thanks for uploading.

I'm spending my new year's watching this Slavoj Zizek speech lol!

38:10 never seen Zizek this sincerely emotional and vulnerable

thanks for this up

Splendid speech especially towards the end. Bravo.

Go Slavoj! Glad not everyone has switched off yet..

I love this man.

This is really restorative laughter upon laughter that somehow the universal can still shine through the particular for being singular. Well done Zizek.

I love Slavoj Žižek thank yopu so much for the post

This is one of the most impressive of presentations by the Slovenian polymath on Marxism and Communism in the present international context. Also, Dr Zizek is quite strongly emphatic here on the historical importance of Europe and the concept of modernization. Compared to this lecture, again, almost all his later talks are much more Hegelian and Lacanian, with less and less emphasis made on the role of Marxism and Communism in the process of the emancipatory changes that are, as he yet underscores, quite inevitable.

Its been only once I have seen zizek live. He was reading a book while waiting on a pedestrian crossing for a green light. When the pedestrian light actually turned green this huge mass of people crossed the street, but zizek didn't move. He stood there dwelling in that book as he would be in the comfort of his living room. The light turned red again, and i just said to myself, well thats a man that doesn't allow himself to be bothered.

thanx for the video! but what happened to the homepage? why is it "closed"?

we love you

wow just gotta love this man!

The amount of views this video has makes me happy.

great stuff

Can somebody help me? I'm translating this entire speech into spanish to share it with some friends who were extremely interested to understand it. But I just want to know what does he say at the beggining, it is really hard to understand for me. Until the part where he says "I would like to begin with Adorno..." Well.. THANKS A LOT to all of you in advance, and thanks @adycousins for sharing this amazing stuff!

the question once and again is what it is to be re-volucionary, how we embrace such a word and how we are constraint by ideological right forces, always towards a better world

Fantastic talk

note to self: take action

Here's a sincere question: What is one specific idea from Zizek that you can explain which has led you to some new action or some clear understanding about an issue? ... I've never heard Zizek mention anything specific about technology, so I assume he doesn't program, but I could be wrong.

Zizek! It is so inspiring to hear him speak.

Please does anyone know the scholar Alex who Slavoj made constant reference to during his lecture? (I get the impression that Alex must have spoken before Slavoj).

He deserves his spontaneous applause. Delightfully insightful and original is the Zizek!

Alguien podria traducir al español el discurso completo, por favor, lo agradeceria mucho. hay una traducción por allí pero es de un fragmento solamente y con este tipo hay que escuchar de donde para entender a donde quiere llegar, Gracias. Somebady could plis translate the full speech to Spanish, I'll be really thanksful. There's a translate fragment but with this guy you have to now where he start to know where he's going. My english is good but with he's accent a can't understand fully this!

you are so right

@Klllakmet My problem with that is that asking the right questions and stating the obvious can be awfully close to one another. All war is started with the hope that things will change and ended with the bitter realization that they haven't. At this point

@jacobscamell please can you explain what you mean ?thank you for your post also

Where is the other half of this?

Zizek is a wonderful speaker and an certainly an accomplished politician and philosopher. One thing he is not, however, is a hope-bringer. I would very much like to hear your rebuttal on this.

damn you comrade. I was hoping no one would ever notice my mistake :(

Well said.

and so on, and so on...

it's a shame that the vid is not subtitled. he talks very fast >

wow blog of this article is very nice and wonderful . seriously i like that post

I've never seen Zizek speak with this kind of conviction before.

Very few people can do what Zizek does. i am constantly blown away. he is an animal

According to the video's description, his namee is Alex Callinicos :)

Existe una versión subtitulada al castellano???? Por favor, si alguien lo sabe ruego lo comunique.... Gracias.

a fiery speech by a fiery speaker... top class.

What happened ? Was it a natural FORCE coming over me ? Yes, my friend. Twas an early Zizek lecture. Great stuff 🤓💪🥇

I hope there could be an English subtitle for people like me who are not native speakers of English.

i had a debate with Slavoj about the future of europe and Slovenia and there were many point that we agree to!

Wonderful

I may not agree with him about everything, but I do love this man. "His voice will get suddenly higher" Hahah, bless you Zizek!

(...) in the way that, although not strictly logical in its thought sequences, their assertions usually go deep enough into the matter, mixing the word play habilities and erudition of the continental humor and expressivity with the will to delve skin-deep into the abstraction and unveil more its philosophical potential per se than its privileged lireracy through the eruption of erudite metaphors and jokes with a somehow accessible content underneath.

@iwpoe i'm also an eastern european XD but from different country. since english is my 3rd language, following him becomes a bit diffecult when he talks fast. then i'm not sure if i actually hear everything. it's a shame to miss out on things. i guess i'll just watch this again after awhile.

In the sense that he helped change the way we see ourselves yes. I dare say many of Freud's ideas where silly, but the basic Idea that all people have drives and impulses that they dont have conscious awareness of or full control over is still valid and relevant (and not sufficiently acknowledged in this speech).

My God, i luv his constant 'howshouldiputit'

Interesting observation. Apparently, during Greco-Roman antiquity the beard was that which defined philosophers against 'normal' folk - maybe it has something to do with that. I know that I feel more special when I have a beard.

29:30 I haven't heard Zizek explicitly criticize anarchists like Noam Chomsky their communes, and historical events like the Spanish Revolution. Is there any clip where he is less vague about the subject?

@MrC2H5OH I do know what Lenin said, but could you clarify for me - what was Lenin's role after the Russian revolution? Was he in fact not head of state? Wouldn't a dictatorship of the prolitariiat cause certain administrative problems - or is that term merely semantics; meaning dictatorship of the party? Would that therefore make the party and the state one and the same. In which case we still would have a state run by an apperatchik which could not be voted out - a dictatorship in fact.

@rockit353 I don't consider myself a communist, but conservative what concerns culture, identity, nature,... and progressive what concerns economy. With our feet in our own roots, and with our eyes towards the future and growth.

A simple task to unveil this distinction: Ask a Philosophy student to unveil Nietzsche’s arguments then ask him the same for Hegel’s or Kant’s... At that split-second difference, many difficulties may “spontaneously” appear.

@AnotherWayFilms How exactly is capitalism, "anti-democratic"? I would love to hear you explain this :) Btw, how do you think capital is formed? I would love to hear you explain this,too :)

Can anyone please recommend a book by Slavoj Zizek that explains his philosophy and his ideas? Thanks!

@nelica59 could you enlarge on this gibberish? I'm afraid I fail to get your point....

I, for one, am really interested in some of Slavoj's ideas but one particular and general feature about him really stands out to me: He is a typical continental phisolopher in the almost same sense and breath as Nietzsche was: He has many creative solutions and interesting ideas but he never (or rarely) goes rigidly skin-deep into the distinctive nature of these abstract categories the same way someone like Spinoza or Kant would.

The historic evolution of PRIVATE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP of alienation,exploitation,suffering and the emergence of CLASS,STATE,FAMILY as the template of control and suppression for MINORITY RULE is the fractal nature of our limited mode of interacttion.

It seems I can't post links here. Check out: Rasmus Elling 'Who is a reformist' Hamid Dabashi 'Looking in the wrong places' Hamid Dabashi 'Left is wrong on Iran' Reese Erlich 'Iran and Leftist confusion'

@IiiERT Perhaps it's your standards that are low, but tell me as you are too young to have ever visited the workers paradise that was Yugoslavia - where do you get your information?

@truevoice08 I'll try again, it seems I'm being unclear. The part of Bohm-Bawerk's theories that are deemed correct is that he said that workers cannot be paid the full future values of their labours given that their earnings from working are payment, not investment. However, some of the people who supposedly exploit workers really ARE workers, because they increase the value of the products developed by conventional workers. A new "line" between exploiter and exploited must thusly be drawn.

@1826TJ thx for reply. Well, by arguing that there is a problem of alienation in capitalist societies that needs resolving, one surely has outlined a specific set of problems, that requires concrete solving of some kind. With this goes a set of criteria for what a less alienated society is, and what it means own up to that capacity of severing the head of the beast. More or less abstract criteria, criteria nonetheless. Follow? What does those entail?

If it's genuine enlightenment, it doesn't matter who realizes it. When one seeks emancipation, one seeks it on behalf of everyone who is oppressed.

*clapping* "-now comes my point." Priceless! :D

@sherlockhaimes Wait a little. If it's an eternal idea it doesn't necessarily relates to Plato. It might be idea not in the sense of some kind of ideal (or hyper) reality(where Idea with capital I comes from) but in the sense that if a foundational word is said about something, namely the one that names it, it can and will be passed through generations and then the possibility of reinventing is possible.

He hinted briefly at maybe the small reforms will lead to the castration but apart from that does he have any other concrete ideas. He says at other points lately that no one really knows how to do this. Any ideas anyone?

it's the passion he puts on it XD

how should I put it..

I wonder if he's heard of Jacque Fresco.

@rockit353 AFTER the state is established, the worker would have no choice but to learn. Is that what you're saying?

its because of passion.

A nice man

@mistarcraw: Thanks for replying, it's a shame people are downvoting me instead of engaging, after all, this is a Zizek video... I am saying this because of the way he answered some questions. For example, Tariq Ali sees opportunities in the new movements in Latin America, I don't entirely agree with him either (I don't see many positive things in Chavez) but then Zizek mocks him directly. He's also been known to provoke only to get people to listen.

From my perspective My guess is that, power struggles will continue. Darwin and Freud where not mentioned once.

ya

Callinicos made a hell of lot more sense to me.

Son estos momentos en que me gustaría entender mejor el ingles..

@Tfrne It's either you contradict yourself or do not fully understand Bohm-Bawerk's argument which you admittedly agree with. Wages are discounted from their 'full value' not by the discretion of the employer but by differences in time preference. There is nothing stopping the worker from waiting for the realization of proceeds in which time he receives his full value. If I am wrong and capital investment lowers wages then you should be happy that capital is leaving the US for China.

@oihhow "Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." - Andre Gide ;)

33:00 is great

you have reason

Moussavi is not a free-market supporter, he is for some privatization with strong government regulation. In the eighties he was an outspoken proponent of a collectivistic economy.

@1826TJ I mean for instance, describing a problem (alienation) and why it is a problem, and how to combat it. That is certainly not the same thing as giving a formula, and would exactly lead to a motivational invitation to action. I just fail to see this in zizek. In essence your answer leads me no where... I still fail to see how he does this :(

Žižek vas a high school classmate of my profesor of inorganic chemitry.

this guy is on wikipedia's list of western philosophers....i think they need to raise a few bars

Nigga's on fire! Thx for uploading!

@sherlockhaimes Here we are not in the same platonic sense of Idea, which is "there is an ideal form that should be achieved and from where everyhting was taken" but rather in the sense that because it is an idea it can be reinvented. Reinvention is not reform because it does not relate to the previous form of organization, only with the previous atittude in a much nietzschean way..