Lenin: the capitalist will sell you the rope

As told 3

“znate šta je Lenjin kazao: 'Kapitalist će ti prodati čak i čak i uže štrik da ga... omču da ga objesiš'”
24:50 [PART]-Slavoj Zizek on Croatian Talk Show [eng subs]2012-05-13 · 1:01:19

“no big capital is our ally because the organization socialist is already there we just have to take it over the way it is, just chop up the head.”
1:10:06 Our World Is Coming To An End | Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek | Downstreampub. 2023-11-05 · 1:40:47

“For over one century this story goes on, we think capitalism is pushed to its limit but it returns stronger.”
46:27 Twitch Q&A2019-03-27 · 56:37

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

back from Marx to Hegel ×1 communism as the name of a problem ×1 Stalinism as violent return of the discourse of the Master ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Jagger, Mick1 Antonescu, Ion1 Sanader, Ivo1 Indriðason, Arnaldur1 Günter Grass1 Ionesco, Eugène1 Emil Cioran1 Mircea Eliade1

alongside works

Was gesagt werden muss (What Must Be Said)1 Romanian New Wave cinema1 Laibach1 Hitchcock's films1 DARPA neuromodulation project1 Breivik's manifesto (2083: A European Declaration of Independence)1 The Young Pope1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story1

Told together with

20% Breivik: anti-semitic and pro-Zionist simultaneously 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

24:50 [PART]-Slavoj Zizek on Croatian Talk Show [eng subs]2012-05-13 · 1:01:19

Lenin's saying that the capitalist will sell you even the noose with which to hang him, deployed to reject the claim that being paid by or having access through the system automatically coopts you, what matters is what you do with the relative space., illustrating from Marx back to Hegel,communism as name of the problem

1:10:06 Our World Is Coming To An End | Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek | Downstreampub. 2023-11-05 · 1:40:47

After winning the civil war, Lenin embraced foreign mega-corporations, called big capital an ally and named the small middle class as the enemy, the catastrophic mistake that opened the road to Stalin., illustrating how good ideas turn wrong,the road to Stalinism

46:27 Twitch Q&A2019-03-27 · 56:37

Žižek traces a century-long lineage from Marx through Lenin ('imperialism, last stage') to Mao ('highest rotting state') and postmodernism, each predicting capitalism's imminent end while it returned stronger., illustrating accelerationism,capitalism as undead