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

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jack of the Show.
0:22.2	I'm Jen Pan here today with two very special guests, Nando Villa, who you, of course,
0:28.2	know and love from weekends and young Kale Brooks.
0:32.6	It's a little early guys, but happy Halloween.
0:35.8	Oh, thank you so much.
0:37.5	Very excited, you know, monster match season to me.
0:40.5	I mean, that's what I just get to get excused to listen to monster mash on repeat.
0:44.8	What are you guys going to do for Halloween?
0:46.8	I think Nando just told us.
0:48.4	Yeah, that's true.
0:49.4	Kale.
0:50.4	I'm actually wearing bummed out.
0:51.7	I'm bummed out because I have a wedding on Halloween.
0:54.5	Oh.
0:55.5	It's not a costume wedding.
0:56.5	Of course, I was like, well, that's cool.
0:57.5	It's going to be a costume wedding, right?
0:58.5	And you know, it's like, you know, suit and tie.
1:01.2	Interesting.
1:02.2	Why did they choose that date?
1:04.5	I'm guessing because there was just not a lot of dates available because of like, their
1:08.2	like, back, back log, you know, they're like, this is the one date.
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