In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
![“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great." [ Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e9e/slavoj-i-ek-1738_bad-people_because-the-horror-of-communism-stalinis_1900927.jpg)
![“For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c96/slavoj-i-ek-1738_accusation_for-me-stalinism-was-even-a-greater-phil_2626555.jpg)
