Slavoj Zizek Quotes
Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.
Žižek, Slavoj, and Glyn Daly. Conversations with Žižek. Polity Press, 2004.
The Russian troops had surrounded Berlin and were closing on the bunker. Hitler announced that he intended to commit suicide. 8 days later he did.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Oswald Mosley was the British Nazi leader who was jailed during much of WWII. There was an obvious and intended similarity to the German Nazi “Brownshirts.” However, the British Nazis wore black shirts. See {591594}.
70 years after Fascism was defeated in Italy, there were still a number of right wing politicians who still espoused some of the Fascist principles. “Abjure” means to repudiate.
In 1918 the Treaty of Versailles—peace treaty ending WWI—was signed. Many Germans felt that their defeat in WWI forced them to sign the treaty which weakened Germany and assured that they would be a 2nd rate power thereafter. After that Germans blamed every negative aspect of their government, economy and society on the treaty that was “forced” on them. Nazism was a consequence of these feelings, and the Nazis adopted policies and practices to get around their anti-military obligations and have a strong government so that the allies could not enforce the treaty obligations on Germany.
Egypt, after is Arab Spring ousting of it like time military dictator, suffered through and Islamic government regeime, but after that ended up electing a military strongman again who had little inclination towards democracy and was decidedly fascistic. In November 2013, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights presented Omran with an award to honor her work and commitment to human rights in Egypt.
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.
