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sad Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Zizek | sad

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I’m a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets – it’s a very sad lesson – by their intervention, saved the myth.

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failure Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Zizek | failure

I – and I still consider myself, I’m sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn’t help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

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alone Slavoj Žižek

Quote from Slavoj Zizek | alone

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Slavoj Žižek

Quote from Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

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Slavoj Žižek

Quote from Slavoj Žižek

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

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Slavoj Žižek Tarrying with the Negative: Kant

Quote from Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

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