Is that Zizek? I used to really like him when I was a shitlib (in fact, tbh I still do)
But he's not a Marxist and fought against socialism in Yugoslavia as a Yugoslav dissident
With the fall of Socialism in Yugoslavia and US/German hegemony stealing all their markets the time of Socialism in Yugoslavia is now looked at as a golden period
You can only possibly look at the previous Socialist experiments as "failed monstrosities" if you are a Western chauvinist (as Zizek is and one of the many Slovene intellectuals that wanted to turn West to the EU to receive IMF loans at the promise of breaking away.. while Western capital balkanised Yugoslavia)
There is a newspaper clipping (though I can't for the life of me find it right now) where Marx is being interviewed and even in his day they're pulling the "billion deaths!" when asking him about the Civil war in France and his support for it
To which he cooly replies that there is a factor of 100x that death every day in capitalist society and you can't begrudge the revolutionary fervour to end that cycle of death
Is that Zizek? I used to really like him when I was a shitlib (in fact, tbh I still do)
But he's not a Marxist and fought against socialism in Yugoslavia as a Yugoslav dissident
With the fall of Socialism in Yugoslavia and US/German hegemony stealing all their markets the time of Socialism in Yugoslavia is now looked at as a golden period
https://balkaninsight.com/2010/12/24/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/210866/balkans-harm-yugoslavia-breakup.aspx
You can only possibly look at the previous Socialist experiments as "failed monstrosities" if you are a Western chauvinist (as Zizek is and one of the many Slovene intellectuals that wanted to turn West to the EU to receive IMF loans at the promise of breaking away.. while Western capital balkanised Yugoslavia)
There is a newspaper clipping (though I can't for the life of me find it right now) where Marx is being interviewed and even in his day they're pulling the "billion deaths!" when asking him about the Civil war in France and his support for it
To which he cooly replies that there is a factor of 100x that death every day in capitalist society and you can't begrudge the revolutionary fervour to end that cycle of death
Thanks for the context.