Slavoj Zizek Quotes
Communism will win.
Žižek, Slavoj. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce. Verso, 2009.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
He moved to the U. S. after these events.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The Pope was not affected by the “Red Scare” that so many other world leaders has been. Typically most people opposed to Marxism generally thought that those who were Marxists were evil. Pope Francis, candidly observed that many Marxist were good people and well-intended. In his view they were wrong, being naïve or misguided.
The occasion for the speech was the 60th birthday of Russian Premier, Joseph Stalin.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He is also Global Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He works in subjects including continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, art criticism, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism and theology.
