Slovenia's 'End of History'
anecdote · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek recalls that in Slovenia, the demand for 'freedom and democracy' at the end of socialism was actually a demand for 'more open socialism' with social justice, not just Western liberalism.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 2
“No, at least for Slovenia I can guarantee you, the ideal was almost a more open socialism.”
“For the Church freedom was freedom to get back all our possessions... For new capitalists it was again freedom from capitalist expansion.”
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)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Clara Schumann1Gillian Flynn1Tana French1Albin Kurti1Thomas Hertog1Efimov Dmitri1Jack Butler Yeats1Sama Maani1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
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Žižek recalls that in Slovenia, the demand for 'freedom and democracy' at the end of socialism was actually a demand for 'more open socialism' with social justice, not just Western liberalism., illustrating communism-socialism,democracy,history
Žižek recalls how Slovenians united against Yugoslav aggression under 'freedom,' but immediately after independence, different groups (Church, capitalists, leftists) realized they meant completely different things by it., illustrating illusion with real effects,freedom as the freedom to change the rules
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During Slovenia's independence movement 30+ years ago, different groups all chanted 'freedom' but meant incompatible things: right-wingers wanted nationalized property back, religious people wanted church access to media, trade unionists wanted workers' rights, gay people wanted sexual freedom., illustrating freedom as inconsistent terrain,master signifier