/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpnLoBQgGw

What should I start with?

>>6671399
>I've taken interest in Marxism/Communism
have you now?

>The Guardian, the British newspaper, asked me, "Is romance still alive today?" And my idea, my answer to them was let’s imagine an ideal sexual situation today. Let’s say I meet a lady; we are attracted to each other; we say okay, you are — all the usual stuff — your place, my place, whatever we meet there. Then, what happens then? I come with, she comes with her plastic penis, electric dildo. I come with some horrible thing. I saw it. It’s called something like stimulating training unit, whatever. It’s basically a plastic vagina, a hole. But you can — it’s wonderful technologically. You can regulate everything. How much it squeezes you. How strongly it shakes and so on. So my idea of a perfect date is the following one.

>We met. Then I put, she puts her plastic penis dildo into my stimulating training unit is the name of this product. Into my plastic vagina. We plug them in and the machines are doing it for us. They’re buzzing in the background and I’m free to do whatever I want and she. We have a nice talk; we have tea; we talk about movies. What can be — we paid our superego full tribute. Machines are doing — now where would have been here a true romance. Let’s say I talk with a lady with the lady because we really like each other. And, you know, when I’m pouring her tea or she to me quite by chance our hands touch. We go on touching. Maybe we even end up in bed. But it’s not the usual oppressive sex where you worry about performance. No, all that is taken care of by the stupid machines. That would be ideal sex for me today.

how many people here are smarter than zizek?

>Slavoj Žižek (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk] ( listen); born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic.

Okay, so he's a Marxist. He wants to see a revolution in which the working class overthrows the capitalists and forms a new classless society. So what does he do for a living? Is he an urban factory worker like Marx predicted the core of the proletariat must be?

>He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University,[1] and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.[2]

Huh. So he's not even a worker, let alone an urban factory worker (not much of those left around here anyway, huh?). I wonder what something like being a "senior researcher" and "Global Distinguished Professor" and "international director" pays.

So what class is this guy? Intelligentsia? That's a parasitic subclass of the middle class, right? Hasn't that class always eventually been violently liquidated in the several hundred attempts at a Marxist revolution that have occurred in the past? So he must not be a member of the intelligentsia, but a hopeful member of the nomenklatura, the class of middle class people that always takes over the show during a Marxist revolution.

So obviously he's not motivated from concern for the proletariat, but his own subclass, the protonomenklatura.

But what about all his fancy writings and lectures? "Pure ideology" would be the polite way of putting it. It's all just bullshit meant to secure the class interests of the protonomenklatura and nothing more, and has nothing to do with the proletariat.

>warns against the dangers and evils of pure ideology
>subscribes not only to communism but also Marxist theory which operates as pure ideology

>>6407077

>>6308350
The cordwainer, accorded by fate looks on.
Au Courant but aged -
He walks his imperial rut
Caught in the stride of yesterday’s march.

But not to betray his prince –
The despot prescott,
Bound and crowned with newfound thoughts of calamity.
Sic temper tyrannis we clamour!
But to no avail.
For there is no glamour in what we are,
Bookmakers to kings.

>>6233423
>Ži-jerk
after a bit of snooping around, I can't find a single picture of him where he looks the least bit satisfied with his life

Just you m8 :^)

>>6073947
my got, all that ideology

I am a conservative but I love this guy. He's very knowledgable, funny, expressive and charming. I think he would be a good communist leader

woolie russian man
speaking at school. "this is pure
ideology."

What is he listening to, /lit/?

ideology is the basis on which every person lives their life, whether they admit it or not

Should I read Zizek?

what are some good beginner books on political philosophy?

>>5239237
>and so on
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and so on

What's wrong with Zizek?