Mr. Zizek, Uzbekistan is struggling to achieve a freedom, virtually all people are fearful, can you please talk about how to get rid of fear and teach us how to make good people do bad things in order to oppose bad people to step down. Please! Thanks in advance!
Contextualism is related to the relationship between morality and politics 1. Ethical behavior that creates subsequent political contexts according to Kimberly Hutchings. 2. This is a problem because Jacobus and Martin recently published a textbook on the Humanities that describes the importance of Feminist ethics and the relational theory of value.
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Freedom is unattainable. One is either absolutely free or not free at all. One needs great influence on others to do things but to depend on others itself is a form of unfreedom .
The arguments we make to arrive and refute things do not imply free will at any level. The attempt to save free will by playing word games at superficial levels doesn’t work
@@lucca2c one time he says one and another time he says something else. He is an opportunist of the highest order calling for NATO to nuke russia and serbia. He is a pig.
Stop smoking at any time ? No _professional smoker_ would ever claim such bullshit. I smoke bcs I have no other choice and a catastrophic intervention on my level of health only will bring me off of it. So I submit to my mental and physiological addiction and accept the fate placed upon me by my own naivety. Everything else, as Zizek tried to prove, is purely superficial misconception sprouting from a man, never having been into a real biochemical addiction. Why u want to be more healthy without smoking ? Fear of pain when the disease will break out ? Fear of missing something wonderful presented to you by life ? No - stay with it and die as miserable or good as u can. Sorry, I talk too much.
"Stop smoking at any time ? No professional smoker would ever claim such bullshit". I said that in my mind many times. I smoked 20 to 40 daily..... and one day i stopped :D its not bullshit.
On the outside or even from 1st person perspective (which is still outside the subconscious) it looks like the a change or decision takes place in one day ore one moment, but does it really? And if not, does it matter? I think the answer is no to both. @@JohnnyRiffmage
Unfortunately the Zhou En Lai quote about the French revolution was an error as Zhou thought they were referring to the riots going on in France at the time.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
You are indeed one of the great minds I have the pleasure to listen to in my lifetime. Being from Brazil, where the fascism and evangelical fundamentalism are at their heights, giving power and voice to those who were hidden in the "swage," it is revigorating to let you in my house to awake my mind through your videos. Thank you for existing.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As someone who has participated in the anti-war demonstrations shown at the end of this video at 1:34:51 , and previously in anti-Putin protests since 2015, I must express my thoughts with the utmost respect and profound regret. We are unfortunately too late for these reflections. Russia has become isolated from dialogue but not from the flow of European money into Putin's pockets. Almost all Russians who protest against the war have either left Russia, been imprisoned, or been killed. Those of us who have managed to escape Russia feel only loneliness and utter disillusionment with European civilization. We have lost our home and have no right to find a new one. We risk becoming lost, just as an entire generation did a hundred years ago when they fled the Bolsheviks. The new generations emerging in Russia are being successfully indoctrinated. Now that all restraints have been cast aside, Putin's regime unabashedly employs some of the most vile propaganda techniques ever devised by European civilization. If the European Union is not ready to honestly and permanently sever economic ties with Putin, and if Putin is not defeated now, beware the time when these indoctrinated generations are old enough to wield weapons.
Try being from the west knowing that the truth is so obvious that questioning it is lunacy. Truth built on genocide after genocide and acts of piracy. Freedom paid for with the blood of others.
The fact that you said you doubt that you are one of the great minds made me admire you more and respect you more. Amazing challenge a lot of my naïve views about the world. Thank you.
We can all want to be free from the constraints of, say, X, without thereby be committed to Z. You might want A, she B, he C, they D. That is not a mysterious property of freedom. Free from and free to are different, even if ultimately connected.
I 100% disagree on his stance on COVID vaccination. Using his own logo above one being wealthy and the other a guest, some are objectively healthier than others. It's is a road that goes both ways, freedom from vaccination comes with health awareness. Take care of yourself and stop putting the ones taking care of themselves in danger. Though I also know what his stance is on exercise and health. This guy is a bag of contradictions.
Zizek is a Hegelian, and within Hegel's philosophy 'abstract' freedom in itself (the moment of universality) is understood as underdetermined, hence *concrete* freedom is objectively mixed up with the horizon of individuality. Basically, you can't have freedom at the level of society without personal autonomy, and true personal autonomy necessarily generates that horizon of freedom in trying to make itself objective in the world.
He's saying that what appears to be freedom is actually a set of already circumscribed set of choices. Hence it's not that you can choose strawberry cake or cheesecake, but that freedom means you can choose something else other than cake entirely.
Gigantic thinker at his best, which means no "extra" ticks, or parentheses inside parentheses; just central arguments. The Koreans probably paid well and demanded that.
one thing is sure these academicians and their followers live in their own world..!! really doubt his followers has made any impact on society or he himself..just talk shows..enjoy it anyway..
The cost of freedom seems to exclude the cost for some and others. Isn't it Zizek that debunked the Golden Rule. Yes we know we're free and know we're free in our heads to the extent that at a young age we even make compromises to explain why we're free.
philosophically but carelessly explaining my experience, i'm thinking free when your mode of quite natural* being exceeds the existent conceptualized art (of living or interacting with things meetable in life like aging, having a body, following societal rules, thinking, learning etc)
regarding what he said about freedom means to maintain the appearance of freedom, I think that's confusing what that word means, because freedom to make an extremist change doesn't mean to make an extremist change, just to have the freedom to make it if you want to. So the appearance of freedom actually is the freedom. To be free to go to live in the woods doesn't mean to go to live in the woods, it means to have the freedom to do it if you want to.
@@michaelwu7678 Oh yeah? Because to me it seems that he is a complete egalitarian and a socialist. While I agree he has his own autonomous right to hold and spread his views, that does not mean that being uninhibited by societal norms means he is correct. It sounds like to me that you have no clue what Nietzsche even stood against or you would not make this claim. And to set things straight I do admire this man’s commitment to his own ideal. I admire this greatly and see a lot of strength in this man, and a strong will. However that does not necessarily mean his way of organizing society would give rise to more great human achievements. His whole purpose is aimed at reducing suffering in the world. Suffering is a part of life and the desire to eradicate it always stems from weakness. If there are some values that you find compelling here then run them by me. The only thing compelling to me is his ability to critique deeply entrenched structures. I think a socialist movement would ultimately fail if it was governed and organized by the weak and ill constituted, which most socialists are.
@jamm_affinity You literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering. On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking. The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods? You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they could have overcome themselves and their circumstances, but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise. Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their potential. There is obviously no self-overcoming or producing of great works if you die as an infant due to poverty.
@jamm_affinity Sorry, you literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering. On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking. (Note, I am considering here socialist theory as it is in Žižek/Marx, not in the Utopian Socialists whom Nietzsche justifiably criticized as egalitarians and hedonists. Žižek and Marx clearly do not belong to this latter group. In fact, Marx and Engels severely criticized these Utopian Socialists just like Nietzsche did, especially against Dühring). The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods? You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they *possibly* could have overcome themselves and their circumstances (though Nietzsche most probably would have died early due to his poor health), but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise. Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their individual potential. It's not about getting rid of suffering (where do you even see Žižek or Marx implying this at all?). There can obviously be no self-overcoming or producing of great works or new values if you die prematurely as an infant due to external circumstances like poverty. How many potentially great men do you think died before they could achieve anything, due to fatal social/material circumstances? Probably hundreds if not thousands in the whole course of history. Nietzsche's criticism of socialism is just when these goals of enabling individual freedom become ossified as ideological instruments to repress that very freedom, especially of potentially great men. The socialist goal to allow men access to the potential means of rising above the herd ironically becomes a tool used (by Nietzsche's archetypal Priest) to maintain the herd. Obviously socialism has fallen prey to this, and many socialists are indeed weak as history shows through the successes of political opportunists, demagogues, dictators, etc. But this is obviously not a critique of socialism itself as it is a critique of how it can be misused and ossified into priestly, repressive values. Marx *explicitly* denounces egalitarianism as naive and oppressive to human achievement. TL:DR, if you actually want to critique Žižek/Marxism on Nietzschean grounds, it seems to me that you need to learn some more about them and Nietzsche too. Now, if you're just trying to criticize Utopian Socialists like Dühring, Fourier, Lassalle, or modern-day Wokeism, then you have a point, but in that case, you'd be on the wrong video.
@@michaelwu7678 And you sound like a leftist bot who stans anyone talking about socialism. Freedom is claimed not given. Always has been. This guy tries to shoehorn the pathetic Christian values (trying to pander to the working class maybe?) into the modernist movements. Any movement which doesn’t transcend the left and right as they are today is ultimately going to fail in my opinion. They both currently suck ass, so maybe we agree on that. What Marx considers to be utopian socialism is when people try to force it upon a society that is not ready for it in a way that is not practical. I would not be surprised if it eventually takes root for a time, but given the philosophy that has inspired this man (even considering he rejects Marx), I’ve not found one single shred of value in it. The abolishment of private property? No private ownership? Constantly talking about the working class, yet modern leftism is further from the working class than ever? Still sounds like revolutionary escapism driven by resentment and power hungry intellectuals who are unhappy with their status in the world.
He's so well dressed it's scary to see him like this
Yea. Hegelian Steve Jobs
this is obviously someone in a slavoj suit
@@annasofiejespersen2426 Look closer, he's covered in mustard and gravy stains.
Mr. Zizek, Uzbekistan is struggling to achieve a freedom, virtually all people are fearful, can you please talk about how to get rid of fear and teach us how to make good people do bad things in order to oppose bad people to step down. Please! Thanks in advance!
Thank you.... I am a little perplexed😊😊 Slavoj Zizek
Contextualism is related to the relationship between morality and politics 1. Ethical behavior that creates subsequent political contexts according to Kimberly Hutchings. 2. This is a problem because Jacobus and Martin recently published a textbook on the Humanities that describes the importance of Feminist ethics and the relational theory of value.
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"There is no free will".
It is a fortune in some ways and cases that I became a philosopher not by choice knowing nothing of other philosophers.
I was always one, yet it happened one day in my forties that I knew I had been all along.
It is like I knew how to play better until I took lessons. So i did not take painting lessons.
Now I am a little concerned about reading books because i found out that reading books is not good for my mind.
Few references are good enough. More than that is dangerous.
Certainly, this is personal for each individual.
So I knew Einstein
was incorrect in his theories as to Darwin, Newton, Hawkins, Galileo, Nietzsche Aristotle, Plato, etc.
Hegel was confused, as most German philosophers, give and take.
Germans, as chosen people, ruined our existence as in bodies.
Yet they have settled in Israel as Anglo-Saxons to control the human minds to get to their spirits.
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Very good video, thank you 😊
Freedom is unattainable. One is either absolutely free or not free at all. One needs great influence on others to do things but to depend on others itself is a form of unfreedom .
there's more nuance than that. it's really not black and white.
I am a philosopher from **checks notes** Slovenia
This is fkn great 😌
Where was this video from? It seems like it's from a film
The arguments we make to arrive and refute things do not imply free will at any level. The attempt to save free will by playing word games at superficial levels doesn’t work
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Two cups of tea. 😅
This person has no relation with marxism whatsoever nothing he says has anything to do with what marx writes. He is so idealistic it is scary.
he always said that he is more of a hegelian than marxist, so whats your point?
@@lucca2c one time he says one and another time he says something else. He is an opportunist of the highest order calling for NATO to nuke russia and serbia. He is a pig.
Stop smoking at any time ?
No _professional smoker_ would ever claim such bullshit.
I smoke bcs I have no other choice and a catastrophic intervention on my level of health only will bring me off of it.
So I submit to my mental and physiological addiction and accept the fate placed upon me by my own naivety.
Everything else, as Zizek tried to prove, is purely superficial misconception sprouting from a man, never having been into a real biochemical addiction.
Why u want to be more healthy without smoking ?
Fear of pain when the disease will break out ? Fear of missing something wonderful presented to you by life ?
No - stay with it and die as miserable or good as u can.
Sorry, I talk too much.
Well said I really love ZIZEK and agree on Most things he says but he obviously doesnt know or has Never experienced addiciton..
"Stop smoking at any time ?
No professional smoker would ever claim such bullshit". I said that in my mind many times. I smoked 20 to 40 daily..... and one day i stopped :D its not bullshit.
@@JohnnyRiffmageWell done, sir
On the outside or even from 1st person perspective (which is still outside the subconscious) it looks like the a change or decision takes place in one day ore one moment, but does it really? And if not, does it matter? I think the answer is no to both. @@JohnnyRiffmage
You are totally misunderstanding his point lol.
Probably the clearest and most focused hour plus Zizek talk I’ve ever experienced.
Yes, certainly its very clear- more like a college class lecture..
I was shocked!! This is the video I will take people to, to learn about Zizek.
He didn't forget his adderall that day
He's not lying when he admits he's a commie
@@adelaalina5549 you say this like it's a bad thing
Unfortunately the Zhou En Lai quote about the French revolution was an error as Zhou thought they were referring to the riots going on in France at the time.
uninterrupted one and half hour of pure zizek .. thanks for posting
I read it as - uninterrupted one and half hour of pure zizek .. thanks for nothing 😂
My name is Slavoj Žižek. I am a philosopher from Slovenia.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
@@josemarialaguingeand when do you have sex ???
im croozer and i like youtube video on my puter
You are indeed one of the great minds I have the pleasure to listen to in my lifetime. Being from Brazil, where the fascism and evangelical fundamentalism are at their heights, giving power and voice to those who were hidden in the "swage," it is revigorating to let you in my house to awake my mind through your videos. Thank you for existing.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Now i want some fucking fruit juice...
As someone who has participated in the anti-war demonstrations shown at the end of this video at 1:34:51 , and previously in anti-Putin protests since 2015, I must express my thoughts with the utmost respect and profound regret. We are unfortunately too late for these reflections. Russia has become isolated from dialogue but not from the flow of European money into Putin's pockets. Almost all Russians who protest against the war have either left Russia, been imprisoned, or been killed. Those of us who have managed to escape Russia feel only loneliness and utter disillusionment with European civilization.
We have lost our home and have no right to find a new one. We risk becoming lost, just as an entire generation did a hundred years ago when they fled the Bolsheviks. The new generations emerging in Russia are being successfully indoctrinated. Now that all restraints have been cast aside, Putin's regime unabashedly employs some of the most vile propaganda techniques ever devised by European civilization. If the European Union is not ready to honestly and permanently sever economic ties with Putin, and if Putin is not defeated now, beware the time when these indoctrinated generations are old enough to wield weapons.
Try being from the west knowing that the truth is so obvious that questioning it is lunacy. Truth built on genocide after genocide and acts of piracy. Freedom paid for with the blood of others.
why is Slavoj in such weird guerilla videos and not just "School Name, Place Name" UA-cam - lecture. Simply! haha
The fact that you said you doubt that you are one of the great minds made me admire you more and respect you more.
Amazing challenge a lot of my naïve views about the world.
Thank you.
oh my god, you ripped this from Great Minds! Thank you so much comrade, been looking for it for a while!
Not a big fan of the music honestly
Please, come to india. where false patriotism is on sale and truth is in jail.
No man is not a island into himself
We can all want to be free from the constraints of, say, X, without thereby be committed to Z. You might want A, she B, he C, they D. That is not a mysterious property of freedom. Free from and free to are different, even if ultimately connected.
Thank you for disorienting me and thank you for when you do in the future... Maestro.
Thank you for this comrade!
I 100% disagree on his stance on COVID vaccination.
Using his own logo above one being wealthy and the other a guest, some are objectively healthier than others. It's is a road that goes both ways, freedom from vaccination comes with health awareness. Take care of yourself and stop putting the ones taking care of themselves in danger. Though I also know what his stance is on exercise and health. This guy is a bag of contradictions.
Radically entertaining, especially those edits and sounds, and so on and so on
And so on.
Zizek would be on here saying the nazi were free. He's an inauthentic dinosaur trying to stay relevant.
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Fascinating but, is he not mixing freedom with personal autonomy? those are very different notions......
He is not. Personal autonomy is part of liberty not freedom
Zizek is a Hegelian, and within Hegel's philosophy 'abstract' freedom in itself (the moment of universality) is understood as underdetermined, hence *concrete* freedom is objectively mixed up with the horizon of individuality. Basically, you can't have freedom at the level of society without personal autonomy, and true personal autonomy necessarily generates that horizon of freedom in trying to make itself objective in the world.
He's saying that what appears to be freedom is actually a set of already circumscribed set of choices. Hence it's not that you can choose strawberry cake or cheesecake, but that freedom means you can choose something else other than cake entirely.
Yeah dude you are smarter than him 😂
@@jackwebb3757 he is curious. That's better than smartness.
his English hasn't improved for all these years
Ah, everyone is born free yet everywhere people are in chains.
And so on and so on.
:p
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i really like slavoj’s analysis of the war on ukraine, very insightful
Ah I've not heard it yet, I'm curious now, thx.
( and I'm commenting before watching this video ha, in case that was unclear and he talks about it here.)
The composer Shostakovich made semantic games with the Soviet authorities with his music.
Great vid
Bravo!
This video gives me the biggest illusion of freedom
Be very suspicious of it
The analogy of feminism and the coffee without milk is very confusing. I get the overall message but he makes it deliberately difficult to understand
Gigantic thinker at his best, which means no "extra" ticks, or parentheses inside parentheses; just central arguments. The Koreans probably paid well and demanded that.
one thing is sure these academicians and their followers live in their own world..!! really doubt his followers has made any impact on society or he himself..just talk shows..enjoy it anyway..
The cost of freedom seems to exclude the cost for some and others. Isn't it Zizek that debunked the Golden Rule. Yes we know we're free and know we're free in our heads to the extent that at a young age we even make compromises to explain why we're free.
All the styling and animation is really distracting to me sorry
philosophically but carelessly explaining my experience, i'm thinking free when your mode of quite natural* being exceeds the existent conceptualized art (of living or interacting with things meetable in life like aging, having a body, following societal rules, thinking, learning etc)
Tbh there is not that much ukrainians who can fight left to say when ukraine wins. With all respect.
35:36 Freedom Paradox
38:41 liberty and freedom (Hegel)
If my idea of freedom disagrees with your idea of freedom then none of us can be free until we both agree to be slaves
so much insightful. thank u so much for posting this.
Wow thanks
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regarding what he said about freedom means to maintain the appearance of freedom, I think that's confusing what that word means, because freedom to make an extremist change doesn't mean to make an extremist change, just to have the freedom to make it if you want to. So the appearance of freedom actually is the freedom. To be free to go to live in the woods doesn't mean to go to live in the woods, it means to have the freedom to do it if you want to.
all we need is milk
he lost me at the "vaccination" point... because it was not "vaccination" they just called it that to sell the product
It's literally a vaccination by definition, take your meds.
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This dude is ate up with slave morality
Lol he definitely understands Nietzsche much more than you
@@michaelwu7678 Oh yeah? Because to me it seems that he is a complete egalitarian and a socialist. While I agree he has his own autonomous right to hold and spread his views, that does not mean that being uninhibited by societal norms means he is correct.
It sounds like to me that you have no clue what Nietzsche even stood against or you would not make this claim.
And to set things straight I do admire this man’s commitment to his own ideal. I admire this greatly and see a lot of strength in this man, and a strong will. However that does not necessarily mean his way of organizing society would give rise to more great human achievements. His whole purpose is aimed at reducing suffering in the world. Suffering is a part of life and the desire to eradicate it always stems from weakness.
If there are some values that you find compelling here then run them by me. The only thing compelling to me is his ability to critique deeply entrenched structures. I think a socialist movement would ultimately fail if it was governed and organized by the weak and ill constituted, which most socialists are.
@jamm_affinity You literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering.
On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking.
The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods?
You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they could have overcome themselves and their circumstances, but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise.
Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their potential.
There is obviously no self-overcoming or producing of great works if you die as an infant due to poverty.
@jamm_affinity Sorry, you literally sound like a right-wing bot who just thinks Nietzsche's philosophy is about critiquing collectivism or that socialism is all about the forced equality of people to achieve some utopian vision without suffering.
On both accounts, your understanding is severely lacking.
(Note, I am considering here socialist theory as it is in Žižek/Marx, not in the Utopian Socialists whom Nietzsche justifiably criticized as egalitarians and hedonists. Žižek and Marx clearly do not belong to this latter group. In fact, Marx and Engels severely criticized these Utopian Socialists just like Nietzsche did, especially against Dühring).
The title of this talk is about *freedom.* Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't have great human achievements without freedom. Do you think great men just magically appear by themselves in a primitive cave in the woods?
You think Caesar, da Vinci, Goethe, even Nietzsche himself would have made their great accomplishments if they were kept as slaves their whole lives? Yes, they *possibly* could have overcome themselves and their circumstances (though Nietzsche most probably would have died early due to his poor health), but if your starting point is literally being a slave, you're not gonna get as far as you would otherwise.
Socialism, in the Marxian sense, is about freedom, i.e., how can the arbitrary limitations of human life (e.g., access to resources) be *freed up* so that individuals can maximize their individual potential. It's not about getting rid of suffering (where do you even see Žižek or Marx implying this at all?). There can obviously be no self-overcoming or producing of great works or new values if you die prematurely as an infant due to external circumstances like poverty. How many potentially great men do you think died before they could achieve anything, due to fatal social/material circumstances? Probably hundreds if not thousands in the whole course of history.
Nietzsche's criticism of socialism is just when these goals of enabling individual freedom become ossified as ideological instruments to repress that very freedom, especially of potentially great men. The socialist goal to allow men access to the potential means of rising above the herd ironically becomes a tool used (by Nietzsche's archetypal Priest) to maintain the herd. Obviously socialism has fallen prey to this, and many socialists are indeed weak as history shows through the successes of political opportunists, demagogues, dictators, etc.
But this is obviously not a critique of socialism itself as it is a critique of how it can be misused and ossified into priestly, repressive values. Marx *explicitly* denounces egalitarianism as naive and oppressive to human achievement.
TL:DR, if you actually want to critique Žižek/Marxism on Nietzschean grounds, it seems to me that you need to learn some more about them and Nietzsche too.
Now, if you're just trying to criticize Utopian Socialists like Dühring, Fourier, Lassalle, or modern-day Wokeism, then you have a point, but in that case, you'd be on the wrong video.
@@michaelwu7678 And you sound like a leftist bot who stans anyone talking about socialism.
Freedom is claimed not given. Always has been. This guy tries to shoehorn the pathetic Christian values (trying to pander to the working class maybe?) into the modernist movements. Any movement which doesn’t transcend the left and right as they are today is ultimately going to fail in my opinion. They both currently suck ass, so maybe we agree on that.
What Marx considers to be utopian socialism is when people try to force it upon a society that is not ready for it in a way that is not practical. I would not be surprised if it eventually takes root for a time, but given the philosophy that has inspired this man (even considering he rejects Marx), I’ve not found one single shred of value in it. The abolishment of private property? No private ownership? Constantly talking about the working class, yet modern leftism is further from the working class than ever? Still sounds like revolutionary escapism driven by resentment and power hungry intellectuals who are unhappy with their status in the world.