Jacobin Show: Slavoj Žižek on the Legacy of the Russian Revolution

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English - October 28, 2021 19:30 - 2 hours - 119 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
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Slavoj Žižek discusses World War I and the other forces that shaped the Russian Revolution, how we should understand the Red Terror, the Russian Civil War, and the legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Plus, Žižek reviews Squid Game and Denis Villeneuve's Dune remake.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from October 26, 2021 with Jen Pan, Nando Vila, and Cale Brooks hosting.

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