Slavoj Zizek - The difference between Nazism vs Stalinism #shorts #zizek #philosophy #history #ww2

Slavoj Zizek explains one of the core ideological difference between Nazism and Stalinism.

[iwouldprefernotto]

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[natepeace]

My earphones are absolutely soaked after this.

[Notapizzathief]

I met zizek a couole if years ago and got a photo with him. Nice guy. He was smiling right up til i took the photo then made a frown for the canera haha

[caijuu]

Slavoj Zizek: "Stalinism was bound by a principle, although purely theoretical and only given lip service, that human beings were ultimately rational and it was a moral imperative for them to participate in society. Nazism held no such ideas and Nazi authorities would exact their view of justice upon any they deemed unfit for society. I am making this point to illustrate their differences, and not as a moral comparison between the two."

Half the comment section: "Oh, so you're a Stalin-loving mega-commie?"

[eugenioginicambaceres]

My father said that at least in the Spanish Inquisition a jew could converted to roman catholicism and save his life by just not practicing judaism anymore. It was impossible for a jew to turn into a German aryan and that was the horror of it, not having any possibility of a workable way out

[azmendozafamily]

My phone's warranty is void from all the moisture

[ariblekh]

The amount of people who cant see past this mans impediment and see his genius

[raptor]

The video is like:
" Let's discuss the differences between Scarlett and magenta"
And the comment section: "they are both red, they are the same"
Yeah, no shit Sherlock, but we are trying to go little deeper than that in the analysis

[thisnameistemporary]

The media literacy is this comment section is -100

[andrewstout]

lol I'd actually suggest the opposite: In Stalinism they had the *added* horror of applauding your own misery and suffering.

[Imabananna]

But he makes a valid point. Humans have been conditioned to view discrimination as worse than murder. You can kill millions of people, you can starve people to death because of their race, but as long as you pretend it’s not wholesale murder based on race you aren’t vilified to the same degree.

[thesynonymist]

My boi snorted everest through his nose.

[whitecrow_grayman]

The problem is that the same thing happened in Stalinism. Many people came under repression not because they did something, but because a denunciation was written against them or they were members of a group against which they were repressed.

So yes, the Soviet Union loved to mock the repressed during life and after death. You could still be persecuted for being a writer, Jew, Ukrainian, Tatar, artist, doctor, military officer, foreign student, etc. The only difference is that the Soviet Union won the war and found itself on the right side of history, for which they were forgiven for all these mass repressions and executions.
Everyone just turned a blind eye to it. What the Soviet government perceived as confirmation that they were right in these atrocities.

[Eduardot]

Facism and nazism aren't the same

[jasoncola]

Makes sense, Nazism had roots in German Romanticism, which is all about subjectivity.

[Canaris]

>stalinism is better because inmate were forced to attend humiliation rituals and profess love to the man who put them in jail
Well thats a spin..

[soufianechalouh]

"You don't have to prove anything to Israel to be guilty, you just have to be Palestinian"
The irony of becoming what you hate the most..

[KOldridge]

Well you did not have to proove anything for stalin russians invaders either. You could have been killed just for having a nice flat, speaking your own language or just looking different. Russiana had concentration camps as well.

[thebigt]

Did this guy do a line before he started talking

[vlabogd]

Is it known to Zizhek that all crimean tatars were displaced to Ouzbekistan by Stalin in few days? Half of them died on the way or in the desert. They didn't have to prove anything, tatars where guilty by nation, written in the passport, by the way. Enlightenment, really?