“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.” KindMayStillsDreamCornersRealisticMarxistAround The Corner Author:Slavoj Žižek
“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 one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.” IfsKindProblemCoursesInterestingGreaterProvePhilosophicalVictimJewTrialsFeaturesTraitorNazismAccusationBlackmailStalinismQuestions AskedFalse Accusation Author:Slavoj Žižek
“In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.” KindProjectsTragedyWorkersRadicalEmancipationUprisingEnigmaStalinism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.” KindCareGuyCertainOrderHealthySolidarityTypicalIdeologicalStanceOrganic Food Author:Slavoj Žižek
“The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.” KindMeanIdeasToleranceIntoleranceLeaving MeMe AloneProximityLeave Me Alone Author:Slavoj Žižek
“For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.” KindLittlesWhiteDeserveDistanceNativeThriveNative AmericanProtestantsAnglo SaxonInvertedAway We Go Author:Slavoj Žižek