Prague Spring saved by Soviet intervention

As told 4

“They saved your dream. They saved the memory of Prague Spring.”
1:39:00 Digital Technologies and the Human Mind2019-04-18 · 1:45:49

“I claim that the Soviet intervention in '68 which crushed the so-called Prague Spring, saved the Prague Spring.”
33:25 Reconstructing Communism: Part 4 SYSTEM—Disorder, in Heaven2019-06-13 · 1:09:11

“The paradox is that precisely the Soviet intervention saved the dream of the possibility of another communism.”
1:09:01 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

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

desire ×2 happiness as ideological category ×1 paradise at proper distance ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lindsay Anderson2 Nikos Kazantzakis2 Miloš Forman2 Bob Fosse2 John Frankenheimer2 Michelangelo Antonioni2 Abimael Guzmán2 Martin Scorsese2

alongside works

Zabriskie Point2 M*A*S*H2 If...2 A Clockwork Orange2 Capital, Volume 12 West Side Story2 Taxi Driver2 Full Metal Jacket2

Told together with

40% The Last Temptation of Christ 2 shared talks 40% Full Metal Jacket, the drill sergeant and Private Pyle 2 shared talks 40% Brief Encounter, the busybody as the big Other 2 shared talks 40% Abandoned planes in the Mojave Desert 2 shared talks 40% Corbyn allies relieved at narrow loss 2 shared talks 33% The Fall of Berlin, Stalin as divine matchmaker 2 shared talks 33% Bosnian rape survivors and the absent big Other 2 shared talks 33% Abu Ghraib as obscene underside of military culture 2 shared talks 25% Rammstein and neo-Nazis 2 shared talks 20% Kinder Surprise Egg 2 shared talks 18% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:39:00 Digital Technologies and the Human Mind2019-04-18 · 1:45:49

Žižek argues Soviet tanks preserved the dream of democratic socialism; without the intervention, the movement would have either collapsed into Western capitalism or hardened into Yugoslav-style soft communism, destroying the utopian ideal., illustrating happiness as conformist category,the positive role of obstacles,desire and non-fulfillment

33:25 Reconstructing Communism: Part 4 SYSTEM—Disorder, in Heaven2019-06-13 · 1:09:11

Žižek argues the Soviet 1968 intervention paradoxically saved the Prague Spring: without it, the reform communism would have had to either capitulate to the West or limit democratization, and failed. The crushing preserved it as an ideal, making people happier than success would have., illustrating desire (Lacanian ethics),paradise at proper distance,happiness ideology / manipulations with happiness

1:09:01 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, usually seen as destroying the Prague Spring dream, actually saved it by preventing it from either becoming ordinary liberal capitalism or being forced by communist reformers to set limits. The temporal catastrophe redeemed the idea by preserving it as pure possibility., illustrating catastrophe and ideological myth,vanishing mediator,failed revolutions

1:07:16 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is usually seen as destroying the Prague Spring, but Žižek argues it saved the dream of another communism, without it, Czechoslovakia would have become ordinary liberal capitalism or the reformists would have had to impose limits., illustrating revolution and catastrophe,ideology and history