Slovenian Strikes
example · Slovenian/Yugoslav ·
retold in 4 talks
Žižek notes that in late 60s/70s Slovenia, when people had free weeks, they got into fights, suggesting that humans need obstacles and occupation, not just luxury.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“In local places there were many fights. After two days of enjoying it people got in conflict and so on.”
“we had a strike of people who work in custom, border police, judges, doctors... it hurts me when the strike has this clear level of differentiating the working class”
“If they organize a strike the capitalist said: fuck off, we disband your factory we move elsewhere whatsoever.”38:56 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
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)
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alongside works
Every retelling 4
Žižek notes that in late 60s/70s Slovenia, when people had free weeks, they got into fights, suggesting that humans need obstacles and occupation, not just luxury., illustrating luxury communism
Žižek contrasts strikes of marginalized textile workers with strikes of high-paid public servants (customs, judges), noting how the latter differentiates the working class rather than building solidarity., illustrating biopower / biopolitical dispensation,solidarity is a problem today
38:56 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
In Slovenia, only privileged state employees (doctors, judges) can afford to strike, leading to internal class resentment where top surgeons get richer while ordinary nurses suffer, illustrating the 'workers' aristocracy.', illustrating workers' aristocracy,class struggle
Žižek describes the situation in Slovenia where only well-paid professionals (doctors, judges, police) can afford to strike, while construction and textile workers are too precarious to even raise their voices., illustrating capitalism,class-struggle