Slavoj Zizek — The Ideology of Yugoslavia

[iwouldprefernotto]

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

[johnnyscifi]

Zizek is the most unconventional genius around. His way of articulating his thoughts, and his intents are so unorthodox, and non-lateral, that it goes over my head until you have that "uhhhuh moment(s)"

[bibibrin]

I loved growing up in our liberal soft communist Yugoslavia. It was certainly worth living in the real experiment confederate state of different religious groups coexisting in relative peace for almost half of century.

[ilaibavati]

This guy is like a clock, he won't stop ticking ...
Great that it doesn't stop him from presenting public lectures

[kingozzy]

We've been gifted extra tics this time

[grandnoobian]

0:59 Super rare double ear scratch. Majestic

[johnnyscifi]

My uncle Branislav was born in Titoslavia. When we were children he was Yugoslavian, as teenagers...he had become Serbian, back then when i wasnt nearly as educated on the topic, i always found it strange that all of a sudden, my uncle was from a new country...

[ParanoidFactoid]

I lived in Belgrade for a year. My wife's family came from there. She grew up in Yugoslavia during her childhood, while her parents were Yugoslavs for life. Or so they thought. And though the current administration is some kind of throwback to a time when people thought Serbia would be a great regional power, many people in that city are nostalgic for the days of Yugoslav socialism. Speaking as an American I found it difficult to understand. But their continuing anger at the 90s bombing campaign, and the relics of buildings left in ruins as remembrance, that's hard to not understand. People are still pissed about that. Zizek is not wrong. Many people there, especially those old enough to have lived in Yugoslav socialism, are fond of those memories and indignant at what has come since.

[numenoreaneternity]

Zizek's greatest flaw is that he's immensely self-loathing and dismissive of his Yugoslav history and identity. Yugoslavia's ideology of Titoism and Non-Alignment is what elevated her to the status of global power in the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split, and had inspired Gaddafi's Third International Theory and Deng's foreign policy. The reason why the ideology never had to be taken seriously by the Yugoslavs is because of how integrated it was in the Yugoslav daily and cultural mainstream, it was effective to the point where it felt as if it was not there while being omnipresent.

[harryfillpot]

Zizek: "so yeah it was a cardboard cutout of a political ideology that made up Yugoslavia"

The comments: "zomg another tic omg a tic ong guys did you SEE THAT TIC omg so blessed BY TICS WOW SO TIC"

[BiscuitHead]

In the words of Tim Heidecker, he doesn't want the thoughts from his brain coming out of his nose. Makes sense.

[VersusARCH]

What he didn't tell you is that in the last two odd decades of Socialist Yugoslavia, or more specifically since the 1974. constitution - each of the 6 constituent republics had its own state security organization - which was FAR more powerful and influential in that republic than any other or indeed the increasingly marginalized federal state security organization. It was the condition from the West in order to obtain loans which kept the little Yugoslav socialist paradise afloat for a while. The purpose was, of course to create a tool with which the West could play on internal Yugostlav conflicts in order to ensure obedience and payments. When a few of those organizations became less than cooperative, the remaining, cooperative ones received support from the West to secede...

[deznuces]

What genuinely I think is, when people talk about the good times in Yugoslavia, it was actually the part when Tito was alive and until his death in 1980. Or to be more precise they talk about it when we look the things from today until 1982/early 1983 when IMF came in. It is silly to say that Yugoslav left believed in miracles, but they actually do. It's a rather fun and also ironic because it is what it actually is, Tito was a miracle, way ahead of its time and after him no one could actually take the same momentum and the same level of charisma that he had. There was couple of people that was actually close to that same level of skills like he was, for example there was Dzemal Bijedic. But as many of those "prodigies" they either passed away early or had, if you'd ask me an "accident" which followed death of course. Its kinda confusing to wrap around your mind when it comes to these things, but yeah...

[BeltramMilos]

Življenje je pripomoček. Lep pozdrav. Miloš

[andrjuska]

And the biggest irony of them all is - people who bullshit Yugoslavia are at least 90% of those who weren't even alive back then. And those same people laugh at the elderly who did experience Yugoslavia, and that know much more about it than us.

[johnshaplin]

Like when someone who takes Rush Limbaugh seriously- a 'true believer'- calls up. Rush might be polite but his genuine response is cold, he acts bored and cuts him off in short order- 'another idiot who misses the point'- which is to parody ''pointy-headed' arguments as a kind of ludicrous, bizarre Liberal for the sake of laughs, not to believe in the "Conservative, Republican Cause' but simulate a belief in order generate attention from suckers for the sake of advertising revenues. It's a distinction 'Left' radio doesn't get and their ratings show it. 'God Bless America' refers to the greatest of a country where you can get rich fooling suckers and be despised by millions of people who can't do a thing to stop you, the pinnacle of 'freedom'.

[MakeItWellForSure]

Watching with captions on elevates the greatness of this video to a whole new level

[slomislom]

People, how do I enjoy listening to this man. 😊
You do not need to look at him!!! You need to listen to him!!!
Long live Žižek!!!

[BeltramMilos]

He is so a great Genius and funny with his nose,
I can watch him, without listening.
Ha. Ha. Kind regards. Miloš

[wolfhachmuth]

Unfortunatly the yugoslav model of communism didn't survive. Tito's yugoslavia was the only communist country with a human face. With a yugoslav passport, u could travel the world, something unheard of if u came from hungary or poland. Growing up in germany, i had yugoslav friends and workmates. We could go to yugoslavia visa free. But u could also sense the underlying hostilities between the different ethnic groups, and foresee the sad outcome of the yugoslav experiement.