Slavoj Zizek — Trotsky VS Lenin: How to Organise a Revolution

[iwouldprefernotto]

If you want to get Zizek's 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt you can do so here:

[mat]

I love how this Zizek video starts with "to conclude"

[oscarzahner]

Broke: storming the capitol, taking a selfie with Nancy Pelosi’s gavel, dying of a heart attack
Woke: gathering less than a thousand people and so on and so on

[marlond]

Zizek's nose is clearly a counter revolutionary

[Fabzil]

It's always beautiful to hear Zizek quoting History... 1:44
Trotsky ("He says") : "But wait a minute"

[duckmcnugget]

“I don’t need an army, I need 20 good men” - Trotsky, GOT S05E08

[sumitagarwalsmart]

He could have done with that whole speech in a minute by mentioning "Communist hackers".

[luizhumberto]

I think maoism revolution tactics are also worth remembering. The russian revolution happened in very specific conditions, in which part of russian army supported the bolsheviks. Mao with his tactics was very sucessuful, because he slowly gained support and control over basic things of everyday life: lands, food, communications, etc. In this sense we need to learn from Trotsky's tactics but also with Mao.

[timatoppinen]

With all due respect, "Post, Telegraph, Telephone" is a classic Lenin's idea which doesn't have to do anything with Trotsky.

"Our three main forces—the fleet, the workers, and the army units—must be so combined as to occupy without fail and to hold at any cost: (a) the telephone exchange; (b) the telegraph office; (c) the railway stations; (d) and above all, the bridges.

The most determined elements (our "shock forces" and young workers, as well as the best of the sailors) must be formed into small detachments to occupy all the more important points and to take part everywhere in all important operations, for example:


to encircle and cut off Petrograd; to seize it by a combined attack of the sailors, the workers, and the troops—a task which requires art and triple audacity;


to form detachments from the best workers, armed with rifles and bombs, for the purpose of attacking and surrounding the enemy's "centres" (the officers' schools, the telegraph office, the telephone exchange, etc.). Their watch word must be: "Better die to a man than let the enemy pass!"


Let us hope that if action is decided on, the leaders will successfully apply the great precepts of Danton and Marx.


The success of both the Russian and the world revolution depends on two or three days' fighting"

V. Lenin, "Advice of an Onlooker", October 8, 1917.

[lxpwsk]

0:04 - title of that move: double sniff left-right combo with late finale.

[grmpEqweer]

So...Zizek says "learn to code"😂

[andrefortes]

When i look at him, the 1st thing that come to my mind is: "so on, so on and so forth"

[febuary]

How telling it is, after all it boils down to the control of resources .

[jurrasicgrant]

Any book recommendations to read more on this subject comrades?

[Zhagg]

The big, public movements will create dialogue.
Clandestine cells will eventually engage in strategic disobedience.
Could be happening right now. They won't televise it.

[pinkfloydguy]

Slavoj Zizek, Sam Hyde, and Christine Weston Chandler all wear the same red and blue striped polo

[FATHOLLYWOODB]

Trotsky is by far my favorite communist revolutionary, I agree with him on one basic concept, permanent revolution worldwide, after studying all communist ideologies, this method of achieving it seems the most realistic, as opposed to Stalin's socialism in one country. I always wondered what would have happened if Trotsky won the power struggle after Lenin's death, I honestly believe the Soviet Union would still exist, and communism would be much more widespread.

[theriversexitsense]

Trotsky, In Defense of October, 1932
"The Italian writer Malaparte, who is something in the nature of a Fascist theoretician – there are such, too – not long ago, launched a book on the technique of the coup d’état. Naturally, the author devotes a not inconsiderable number of pages of his “investigation” to the October upheaval.

In contradistinction to the “strategy” of Lenin which was always related to the social and political conditions of Russia in 1917, “the tactics of Trotsky.” in Malaparte's words, “were, on the contrary, not at all limited by the general conditions of the country.” This is the main idea of the book! Malaparte compels Lenin and Trotsky in the pages of his book, to carry on numerous dialogues, in which both participants together show as much profundity of mind as Nature put at the disposal of Malaparte alone. In answer to Lenin's considerations of the social and political prerequisites of the upheaval, Malaparte has his alleged Trotsky say, literally, “Your strategy requires far too many favourable circumstances; the insurrection needs nothing, it is self-sufficing.” You hear: “The insurrection needs nothing!” That is precisely the absurdity which must help us to approach the truth. The author repeats persistently, that, in the October Revolution, it was not the strategy of Lenin but the tactics of Trotsky which won the victory. These tactics, according to his words, are a menace even now to the peace of the States of Europe. “The strategy of Lenin” I quote word for word, “does not constitute any immediate danger for the Governments of Europe. But the tactics of Trotsky do constitute an actual and consequently a permanent danger to them.” Still more concretely, “Put Poincaré in the place of Kerensky and the Bolshevik coup d’état of October, 1917 would have been just as successful.” It is hard to believe that such a book has been translated into several languages and taken seriously."

[ja]

First time I’ve heard anyone in English mention Curzio Malaparte!!

[bjornbuckley]

Since the Twitter files got released this video has taken on a new level of significance