Slavoj Žižek
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…poisoning, whatever you want. And so even if we play this stupid game of who was ultimately responsible for the rise of Hitler, this guy is maybe the best candidate. Because we all know that what laid the foundation for... Nazism, the ultimate cause was…
…detail. Did you notice, for example, if you know a little bit about history of totalitarianism, how... If you look at Hitler when he speaks, or a fascist leader, people applaud, Hitler accepts the applause. Look at the communist leaders speaking, people…
…bit about history of totalitarianism, how... If you look at Hitler when he speaks, or a fascist leader, people applaud, Hitler accepts the applause. Look at the communist leaders speaking, people applaud. What does the communist do? Stands up and joins…
…the same thing in fascism. What? To gather all the Jews in Auschwitz and make them all the best wishes, telegram to Hitler and so on. You see, I love these details like your electronic toilet or whatever, which, you know, a small meaningless feature,…
…Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was a Nazi, who was in Berlin during the Second World War. who was very proud to have met Hitler, who went to Auschwitz and who said that he had never seen something more great than Auschwitz, and who was the mentor of…
…First one, Then let's call it simply fascism. You know, if we talk about Islamofascism, would you agree to call Mussolini or Hitler Christofascism, or what? But a more fundamental problem. I see and... This is not, please, this is not a refined way to…
…of Israel. I know that before the creation of Israel, you had an Arab Nazism, an Arab fascism, who said exactly what Hitler said. I hate the Jews. as a virus, microbe, infiltrating everywhere. When Husseini was in Berlin, when the Muslim Brothers were…
…really the peculiarity of this strange and weird hatred. It hates Jews in all forms. Should I call the Mussolini Christianofascism and Hitler? Why not? I would, but then let's be precise. I could call Mussolini a Latin fascism. I could call Hitler a pagan…
…Christianofascism and Hitler? Why not? I would, but then let's be precise. I could call Mussolini a Latin fascism. I could call Hitler a pagan fascism. Yes, why not? A pagan fascism. Hitler, it was not a Christian fascism. The Nazism was also an…
…be precise. I could call Mussolini a Latin fascism. I could call Hitler a pagan fascism. Yes, why not? A pagan fascism. Hitler, it was not a Christian fascism. The Nazism was also an anti-Christian movement, as you know. The project of Hitler was to…
…not? A pagan fascism. Hitler, it was not a Christian fascism. The Nazism was also an anti-Christian movement, as you know. The project of Hitler was to build a sort of new national church of the Third Reich and so on. Hitler was the new ager ahead of…
…movement, as you know. The project of Hitler was to build a sort of new national church of the Third Reich and so on. Hitler was the new ager ahead of his time, I claim. Of course, of course, of course. We have to, why not, to precise and…
…empiricism and common sense would come handy. Like, what does he mean you don't resist? Surely he doesn't mean you don't resist Hitler, for example. Probably he wouldn't say, no, let's not resist Hitler with arms. It means you got caught into his game.…
…he mean you don't resist? Surely he doesn't mean you don't resist Hitler, for example. Probably he wouldn't say, no, let's not resist Hitler with arms. It means you got caught into his game. No, there probably he would agree. Or I would like to ask him…
…something very vulgar in the sense of British empiricism. Let's just replace the general name with a concrete example. Would you also say Hitler? Was our enemy because we did not really try to hear his story? And the problem is deeper here than it may…
…If there is a lesson of psychoanalysis, it's that this precisely is what we should radically abandon. If, from what we know about Hitler, if we take, again, the worst example, one of the worst, Hitler, I think that even for him, probably, the same as…
…what we should radically abandon. If, from what we know about Hitler, if we take, again, the worst example, one of the worst, Hitler, I think that even for him, probably, the same as Hannah Arendt claimed for Eichmann would have... Probably he was, as we…
…that you can imagine, organizing kidnappings, torture, dark plotting. He's basically the guy, if we simplify history, who is responsible for Hitler. You know, in one sense, in the Thirty Years' War, 1918-19, sorry, 1618-1648, in Europe, He was the one who…
…reunification of Germany. He succeeded. The result was the German delay, deferral of reunification, which was the structural condition for Hitler. Okay, the worst guy you can imagine. But there is something quite fascinating. After he did this dirty work…
…to it. It's a fake. First, again, it has limits. It works only at a certain level. Would you be ready to say this for Hitler or Stalin? We forgive you, dear Hitler, tell us the story of Holocaust. We will not forget it, but we forget. No, I think…
…it has limits. It works only at a certain level. Would you be ready to say this for Hitler or Stalin? We forgive you, dear Hitler, tell us the story of Holocaust. We will not forget it, but we forget. No, I think that when we are dealing with really…
…this, now don't go into this orgy, divine spark, we are all deeply good. No, the problem is that the same holds for Hitler, for Stalin, for whoever you want. I have no doubt that they were doing with this innocence in view. That is to say,…
…level. And the limits are clear if I simply paraphrase this or apply to a very specific case. Would you also be ready to say, Hitler was our enemy because we didn't hear his story? I did hear his story, I read Mein Kampf and so on. And what shocks…
…France and Protestant Sweden against Catholic Austria to prevent unification of Germany. So we can even say he is guilty for Hitler in certain way. Because you know, it was because of his political plotting that Germany was not unified earlier as a…
…they say what they mean? That is to say, I'm sorry to tell you, but in exactly the same terms, we all know that Hitler, when he said Jews, every Marxist, he didn't really mean Jews, no? He meant Jews. capitalists or whatever, rich people, and he just…
…implied the guilt for the Holocaust-red European countries to support the establishment of the State of Israel. Quote, on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in pharmacies. And they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something…
…this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is, is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem? If the Europeans are honest, They should give some of their provinces…
…says, we don't accept this claim, he's consciously, some Iranian friends confirmed this to me, ambiguous. Which claim? The claim that Hitler killed millions of Jews, or the claim that the Jews were innocent, you know? So he oscillates. They were not killed,…
…people were simply, large amounts of people, disoriented. And for Hitler's product, Jew was, you know, like, you are confused, then Hitler says Jew, Jewish plot, aha, things are clear. The new narrative. Yes. That's the basic idea of the master discourse.…
…a wonderful film in what sense that if you look at it closely, you will see that, OK, official is Austrian resistance towards Hitler, the Nazis. But if you look really closely at the features, small features. It's really that the Nazis are presented as a…
…even worse than Ayn Rand, this Atlas Schrechter book. But... But what I mean is that ask yourself a simple stupid question. Did Hitler really believe it or not? And you end up in a paradoxical answer that he was fully aware that he is manipulating, but…
…was fully aware that he is manipulating, but at the same time he believed in it. That is to say, at a certain point Hitler clearly, how should I put it, shows his scars, described the manipulation. He said, you know, in order to control the crowd, you…