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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.

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“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.”
5:01 Slavoj Žižek - How to become freepub. 2024-05-24 · 1:35:15

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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
5:01 Slavoj Žižek - How to become freepub. 2024-05-24 · 1:35:15
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
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