Jacobin Show: The Legacy of the French Revolution w/ Slavoj Žižek
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek joins The Jacobin Show on Bastille Day to discuss why the French Revolution still matters and how the Left today can embrace the the radical spirit of the Enlightenment.
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, 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 July 14, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Jacobin Show and of course happy best steel day. I'm Jen Pan here |
| 0:23.2 | with Paul Prescott. Paul, how will you be celebrating the storming of the best steel? |
| 0:28.8 | I was looking around today for some like fortresses to storm, but they got rid of them. You know, |
| 0:34.5 | these goddamn developers. They're just ravaging the fortresses in the city. |
| 0:39.6 | The real estate developers added again. You get more reason why we need another French revolution. |
| 0:46.3 | Right. We need we need a counter revolution to rebuild them and then another one to |
| 0:51.6 | a revolution to take them over. Right. Exactly. So of course today we are talking about the French |
| 0:57.9 | revolution. As I'm sure you all saw, our guest is Shlavoie Giac. Full disclosure, we actually |
| 1:04.7 | pre-recorded an interview with him because of course he is in Slovenia, which has quite a significant |
| 1:10.0 | time difference from here, but it was a great interview. I had a really great time. He is just |
| 1:16.5 | joyful and extremely smart guest as usual. I loved talking to him. Yeah, I mean, it's always a |
| 1:24.7 | while drive with him. You never know where it's going to start and where it's going to end. So |
| 1:29.2 | that was a great interview. Actually, let's play a short preview of the interview because he won't |
| 1:34.1 | be on for a while, but this is what it's like. I just want to know, no hidden preference. Do you |
| 1:41.8 | prefer me to make a brief statement or it's a pure third degree examination of a potential enemy |
| 1:50.2 | where you just bombard me with questions. Whatever you like. We have some questions prepared, |
| 1:58.4 | so I think I'll just start with a bit of water. It's okay. It's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 2:03.3 | Because I wrote some psychotic notes. You know that as an old communist told me when I was young, |
| 2:16.3 | we communists love spontaneous debates exchange with the people. But to prevent enemy provocations, |
| 2:24.0 | the spontaneous debates have to be especially well prepared in advance. Exactly. |
| 2:30.9 | So that was a small taste. Stay tuned for Shlavoy's psychotic notes. |
| 2:35.3 | Right. And I really hope he's saved all of his notes because that's got to go in some library |
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