…very idea that there is some higher force. It doesn't have to be personal God. It can be, and in this sense, for me, Stalin is deeply religious. Not only he was when he was young. You know that Stalin, he wrote, when he was a young theological…

…be, and in this sense, for me, Stalin is deeply religious. Not only he was when he was young. You know that Stalin, he wrote, when he was a young theological student, he wrote some short religious poems which became national treasures. People even don't…

…when he was a young theological student, he wrote some short religious poems which became national treasures. People even don't know that Stalin wrote them. But what I want to say is that you know why Stalin is still theological and Stalinism, because it…

…which became national treasures. People even don't know that Stalin wrote them. But what I want to say is that you know why Stalin is still theological and Stalinism, because it still has this fate of no matter how horrible things are now, if you look…

…you relish that? That that change will hurt? I will tell you how. I mean, that's why people, you know, have a go at Stalin, obviously. Because, and I develop this widely in my book on violence, because you know what we tend to forget in our everyday…

…or abstract moralism they are like You know, like, it's horrible. Again, you see, I succumb to my Stalinist temptation. Like Stalin said, social democracy and fascism are the left and the right hand of capitalism. Stupidity. But I think that this…

…of the admirers around the world and plenty of enemies too. How seriously should we take a man who sees the good in Stalin and says communism is the ideological answer to the 21st century's ills? Slavoj Žižek, welcome to Hard Talk. Thank you very much.…

…clear to me that if you could really critically analyze the experience of the twentieth century Communism. You see that it's not just who Stalin was the bad guy and so on. It's already in Marx and so on at least the roots of it. But again... The roots…

…third favorite version of this life's matter. I found it in Australia, but I think it's now known around the world. It's a poster of Stalin holding some kind of a plate on which it says, no lives matter, you know. But in a way, not in the way Stalin…

…of Stalin holding some kind of a plate on which it says, no lives matter, you know. But in a way, not in the way Stalin would have meant it, people like Agamben say, oh, today we are just survivalist machines, we are losing our dignity and so on. No,…

…another popular example of how unwritten rules work. Imagine, my favorite, you are the Central Committee of Soviet Party, 35, I'm Stalin. I give a speech, you applause, then somebody stands up and criticizes me. It's madness, he will disappear the next day.…

…who criticized me, but are you crazy? Don't you know that in our country we don't do this? It's forbidden to criticize Stalin. He will disappear even faster. You see the paradox. It was prohibited to criticize Stalin, but it was prohibited to... announce…

…this? It's forbidden to criticize Stalin. He will disappear even faster. You see the paradox. It was prohibited to criticize Stalin, but it was prohibited to... announce publicly these prohibitions themselves. So what's my message to you? I'm not losing my…

…the question is what we put behind civilization. So I think we do agree. I'm so sorry because you are weak people. You know how Stalin defined the Bolshevik. We are made of special stuff and so on. I am. I could go on for three hours now. You are…

…be the consequences of what we are doing now. You know, if you think about previous religions and previous regimes in history, whether Stalin or whether the Nazis or whatever, no matter what they did, in the end, you could always go back to the human…

…to even place it on a completely new path. And you can imagine a 21st century totalitarian regime, a 21st century Stalin, that Stalin worked mainly with social engineering. Maybe he wanted to re-engineer human biology, but he couldn't. He dreamt about…

…place it on a completely new path. And you can imagine a 21st century totalitarian regime, a 21st century Stalin, that Stalin worked mainly with social engineering. Maybe he wanted to re-engineer human biology, but he couldn't. He dreamt about creating a…

…Soviet Union collapsed, you still have human beings like they were in 1917. And we start again. In the 21st century, a new Stalin might have the ability first to really re-engineer the body down to the level of DNA and create new human species, and…

…completely inorganic life forms. So we can imagine millions of years of a new evolutionary track beginning with some 21st century Stalin. And this is extremely frightening, especially because these kinds of people, they think in extremes. You know, I talk a…

…mind thinks. When somebody tells me how they are now using CRISPR to try and overcome Parkinson, I think, hmm, what would Stalin have done with it? Jump in, Slavoj. Please, because it's so wonderful. Now we are moving finally into, apart from this…

…Yuval, just to tell you this, I learned from some collection of texts, ideological debates and practical experiments, you know that Stalin tried already to do this in the late 20s. Stalin was convinced by some stupid biologist that with some machinations, I…

…collection of texts, ideological debates and practical experiments, you know that Stalin tried already to do this in the late 20s. Stalin was convinced by some stupid biologist that with some machinations, I don't know how, to create a perfect worker which…

…about intelligence. But they don't need other human qualities like compassion or like autistic sensitivity or like spirituality. If you're Stalin and you want workers in the factories or you want soldiers in your army, so yes, discipline and intelligence are…

…dangerous to start manipulating something so precious before you really understand what you're doing. We all, me and Yuval, we all love Stalin, as it was clear from reference. Evidently. I think when he said that the problem is not just we will be…

…you don't have to be there. Then left-wingers, some Trotskyites still there, say, no, money is bourgeois alienation, no money. Then Stalin intervenes and said, no, you are both... Right wing leftist, left wing deviation, the truth is in the middle. There…

…synthesis of opposites. There will be money and there will not be money. Then Comrade said, what an ingenious solution Comrade Stalin, but can you explain us how this will work? And Stalin's answer is, it's very simple. Some people will have money,…

…see what people say. People are saying it's much better. You get an applause? You're getting an applause like... Better, much better, like Stalin at the end of a speech. You should be proud, yeah. I am so proud about that. Should I... Okay, I won't…

…implicitly treated paradoxically as the only properly ethical agents. Or there are other examples. For example, my favorite example with Stalin Of course, it wasn't... I use this example already at Berwick many times, I know. Of course, under Stalinism, you…

…I use this example already at Berwick many times, I know. Of course, under Stalinism, you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. But believe me, if you pronounced publicly this prohibition, you would be arrested even faster. So this structure interests me.…

…A fascist leader is a figure of fate. Hitler would never has said, oh, it could have been another guy. Unfortunately, Stalin also not. There's a problem with so-called totalitarianism. They want their reign to be grounded in their actual or whatever real…

…and so on. I think, without even great irony, that... Hegel is engaged in a purge which, oh my God, where is poor Stalin with his small purges, you know? Hegel does an incredibly more radical purge in both books, as you emphasize. Again, I will not…

…own version of Hollywood, how they imitated Hollywood and so on and so on. I claim that, you know, even explicitly, when Stalin was asked around 1930 his definition of a Bolshevik, he said, the one which combines Russian dedication to a sacred cause with…

…you know, this crazy dream. Oh, if only Lenin were to survive two years longer, he would have made a pact with Trotsky, Stalin would be sidestep, and so on. No, the deadlock was there from the beginning. But what interests me in Lenin, and maybe that's…

…utopian emancipatory potential, but it went terribly wrong with Stalinism and so on. And We shouldn't play these cheap games, just corrupted Stalin or even, did you notice how Marxists are often even racist here? They put the blame on Russia is too close…

…are always reports on the failure, you know, very convincing books on why things went wrong, why Hitler had to win in Germany, why Stalin had to win in Soviet Union, and so on and so on. I think that, again... What we have to do is, for example,…

…some examples which I love of this how you pointed out this typically Stalinist and I don't limit Stalinism just to Stalin it's part of the communist not only communist culture this retroactivity, how French Revolution was retroactively read. I always find…

…have to have a gap. Expert should not have direct power. There must be a gap. And here I see a problem with Stalinism. Stalin did not pretend to be this empty master. So, here, I'm referring, unfortunately, to a book which most of you do not know, La…

…of you do not know, La Révolution, when you develop also in some other text of you how, you know, we shouldn't dismiss Stalin as this is the dream of some liberal communist. Everything was perfect in the 20s, Bukharin, blah, blah. And then idiot Stalin…

…Stalin as this is the dream of some liberal communist. Everything was perfect in the 20s, Bukharin, blah, blah. And then idiot Stalin comes and says, why don't we kill a couple of millions? No, Stalin did intervene at a certain point of serious deadlock…

…perfect in the 20s, Bukharin, blah, blah. And then idiot Stalin comes and says, why don't we kill a couple of millions? No, Stalin did intervene at a certain point of serious deadlock of the Leninist vision. And I agree with you how he brought in the…

…I developed already many times. Nonetheless, in terms of Lacan, Was not Stalinism in a way university discourse at its purest? Stalin always presented himself as instrument of the people, expert, knowledge. You know where you can find this? Maybe, just to…

…all documentaries, you find them now all on YouTube, and you compare big speeches, I'm sorry, some of you know this detail, by Stalin and by Hitler. It's typical how when Hitler or a fascist leader speaks, at the end the crowd applauds and the leader…

…years of Gulag... Every year on Stalin's birthday, all inmates were gathered and they had to sign each of them a telegram to Stalin wishing him all the best and so on. In Nazism, this is unthinkable. Collect all the Jews in Auschwitz to send a telegram…

…have made a pact with Trotsky. and we would have a wonderful, flowering Soviet Union. No. As you pointed out convincingly, Stalin intervened by proposing a certain formula in a deadlock. But nonetheless, what I would add is that wasn't this... In this…

…difference between the first and the second edition of Hegel's Phenomenology? No, he's a good communist, you know. It's like Comrade Stalin says something, you applaud, you don't ask questions. No, but, sorry, let me be quite serious. It's looking that way.…

…concretely into it. You know that it's clear from recent biographies that Mao didn't read not even one book by Marx and so on. Stalin didn't read anything, so don't be afraid. What I want to say, to be very precise, why Lacan? I think that we are…

…God, I talk too much. Okay. Now, you did your duty. You talk, then. You, as a representative of You were the Stalin, nomenclatura, whatever, you know, working class ordinary people. No, but you know, you know that, but although we can have nostalgic…

…that Stalinist speech. The origin of this is United States. Already the Bolsheviks in the 20s were terribly fascinated by Americans. Even Stalin. When in the late 20s they asked Stalin, what's your image of an ideal communist? He said, the one who combines…

…Already the Bolsheviks in the 20s were terribly fascinated by Americans. Even Stalin. When in the late 20s they asked Stalin, what's your image of an ideal communist? He said, the one who combines Russian stubborn dedication with American practical spirit.…

…Soviet Union. For some representatives, I forgot which building in Moscow, one of the international, I don't know what, they proposed to Stalin two projects. One was a little bit more modernist, the other one a little bit more gothic and so on, and they…

…a little bit more modernist, the other one a little bit more gothic and so on, and they waited for his decision. Obviously, Stalin was confused and signed his name of approval. I approved it, Stalin, on both of them. And they were so afraid, they were…

…gothic and so on, and they waited for his decision. Obviously, Stalin was confused and signed his name of approval. I approved it, Stalin, on both of them. And they were so afraid, they were afraid to disappoint him, but they were also afraid to ask him…

…combination. The front side of the building one side, the back side the other one, simply because they were afraid to ask Stalin and so on and so on. But nonetheless, I think, again, what fascinates me so much in Stalinist architecture. All the…

…of his pieces, they were a secret crime protest against Stalinist oppression and so on. Well, in fact, he got all the highest Stalin prizes, you know, exactly for that. So were they really so stupid, the bureaucrats, that they didn't know this and so on…

…some others are really, are really the hope, the hope of Islam. Where is, are you all there? Are you cutting my, my comrade Stalin there, giving the sign there? I do have some food. Ah, yeah, maybe it shows. I'm a heavy diabetic, but I have this, how…

…is so strong that if you even insist on a difference between Stalinist and Nazi terror, you are already accused of justifying Stalin or whatever. I'm not saying at the level of human suffering. Maybe Stalinism was even a little bit worse. Why? Because,…

…Stalin's birthday, even in the darkest Gulag, all inmates were collected, I mean gathered, and they had to sign a telegram to Comrade Stalin wishing him all the best for his birthday and so on. You cannot even imagine the same thing in Nazism. That they…

…This brings me nonetheless to some ideological component which I find a little bit marginally more terrorizing in Nazism. Namely, paradoxically, Stalin needed these short trials and so on because even if you, okay, not you, me, sorry, but Even if I am,…

…Can I interrupt you in this moment? You said about authenticity. Authenticity was 1970 Lenin. I know what I'm talking about. Stalin was asserting the authenticity of the revolution. What do you mean by authenticity? This was exactly Rob Speer was trying to…

…the authenticity of the revolution. Because Rob Speer said that the authenticity of the revolution was being betrayed. The same thing, Stalin was also feeling that the authenticity of the revolution is being betrayed within. So how do you account this thing?…

…openly said, this is terror. In Stalinism it functions... But what I wanted to tell you... I'm not saying that Stalin... I'm not talking about Stalin's authenticity. I'm saying basically, although I don't agree with him, that what Trotsky said, Stalinism…

…him, that what Trotsky said, Stalinism itself betrayed... Now you will say, how do I know this? I will tell you by analyzing Stalin himself. All his acts, that's my point. The proof is not that I, from outside, know the inner truth of revolution. And…

…truth of revolution. And this would be my, even up to a point, I would say, psychoanalytic approach, you know. Like, from what Stalin... It's clear that he's fighting, as it were, his own demon, as they put it. That he himself acts as a traitor, the…

…just wanted to ask you this thing. See, there is a continuation saying that it is basically Lenin which has led to Stalin. There is hardly any difference between Lenin and Stalin. There is at least one difference. Read Lenin's last texts. They are tragic.…

…is a continuation saying that it is basically Lenin which has led to Stalin. There is hardly any difference between Lenin and Stalin. There is at least one difference. Read Lenin's last texts. They are tragic. He said... Things are lost, he said. It's…

…a little bit more of bourgeois culture to Soviet Union. Lenin's last politics was the exact opposite of what one year later Stalin advocated socialism in one country. There is at least this big difference. I'm not sanctifying Lenin. I'm just saying that in…

…life, which fits today's permissive capitalism. I claim that already in so-called totalitarianism, to understand how figures like Hitler, Stalin functioned, they are not paternal figures. They are not figures of the father. In order to properly develop this…

…exchanges. measure of exchange, without some measure of their value, and it's natural to have money. Now comes the joke. Stalin intervenes. He rejects both views as wrong, as a rightist and leftist deviation, and proposes a dialectical synthesis. There will…

…leftist deviation, and proposes a dialectical synthesis. There will be no money and there will be money. asks the corner of Stalin, how will this function? And Stalin, in his infinite genius, calmly answers, well, it's easy. Some will have money and others…

…dialectical synthesis. There will be no money and there will be money. asks the corner of Stalin, how will this function? And Stalin, in his infinite genius, calmly answers, well, it's easy. Some will have money and others will not have money. We should…

…is your truth. Are you deeply impressed? I'm deeply impressed. You know, next time we meet, I get you another mask, you know, so a Stalin mask, and then you can show me off. What you can do if you have a son, just play with him like this. Yeah,…

…To make my position clear, only, you are not allowed to know, only one thing, there is only one thing that I like about Stalin. You know what? He was horror, the greatest ethical, political catastrophe and so on. One thing I like. A little bit. He was…

…one who made the Western powers really scared. He scared them shit, you know. That's the only tiny thing that I like about Stalin. They were really afraid of him, you know. Which is a great conclusion, Slavoj Zizek. Thank you very much. Thank you very…

…who certainly was no communist. Christopher Hitchens. He showed in a wonderful way how, with all the crimes committed under Stalin, there is one thing that always differentiated communism from Nazism. From the very beginning, from Lenin's time, communism had…

…were telling in detail the story. The logic is totally different with fascism and Nazism. There were people who were accusing Stalin of betraying true principles of communism. They were naive, I know, but at least they were there. Sorry, but I don't…

…you don't see it, and we can be controlled. That's the important of it. So no, I'm not calling for new Stalin or whatever. I just don't think that... late capitalist, bourgeois, individualism, narcissistic subjectivity. I don't think that this form of…

…come to us, to central committee, let's have a debate. And then when once we went there, we spit on them, you are worse than Stalin, and we thought we would be made the arrested a little bit. No danger, but so that you can then have your battle of…

…this myth come that state is slowly disappearing? If it is disappearing, it's in a very Stalinist way, you know, that Stalin, his infinite wisdom, said that in Soviet Union, state is disappearing only in a dialectical way, said Stalin, that state disappears…

…you know, that Stalin, his infinite wisdom, said that in Soviet Union, state is disappearing only in a dialectical way, said Stalin, that state disappears through the fortifying of its organs, especially organs of repression. No, I mean, in this sense, only…

…in Stalinism. Officially, It was, of course, in Stalinist Russia, but the same could be said for... It was prohibited to criticize Stalin. My God, you did this, you disappear next day. But it was even more prohibited, you see the catch, to publicly…

…announce this prohibition. Like, sorry, maybe you know this joke of mine, my starter joke. Imagine we are now in Moscow, I'm Stalin, Central Committee meeting, one of you stands up and criticizes me. We know what will happen. Next day, the big talk among…

…have stood up and would start to shout at the first guy. Are you crazy? Don't you know that here we don't criticize Stalin? I claim that the second guy would have disappeared even faster. You see the point. It was not only prohibited to criticize…

…I claim that the second guy would have disappeared even faster. You see the point. It was not only prohibited to criticize Stalin. The prohibition itself was prohibited. You have to pretend that, yes, if I want, I can, but simply Stalin is so good.…

…prohibited to criticize Stalin. The prohibition itself was prohibited. You have to pretend that, yes, if I want, I can, but simply Stalin is so good. You see this basic paradox. The prohibition itself is prohibited. You have to fake it. You have to act…

…accept the greatness of Lenin, but in a dialectical way. By dialectical, I mean I don't play these stupid games, Lenin was good, then Stalin screwed it up, you know, and then you can go to the end and say, if only Lenin were to survive five years more…

…have to accept that although, and this is the true historical tragedy, it's easy to say Soviet Union had a great chance, Stalin screwed it up. It's also easy to demonize it from the very beginning, you know, this game of no, totalitarianism was already…

…meant with a very precise political stake to rehabilitate the Marxist tradition of the so-called cult of personality. Che Guevara, Stalin, those, but basically we should accept this. We need precisely a name to become subjects. Neutral theory is not enough.…

…socialist state, it's the order of the week and so on and so on. What I don't like is how here, KGB, Comrade Stalin, me, we have our black book. He used the term, this is the totalitarian temptation, this logical arrogance. I think there is something…

…He used the term, this is the totalitarian temptation, this logical arrogance. I think there is something totally wrong in saying Stalin, instead of treating event immediately into the order of being, that this is his Kantian side. You know, that basically…

…so on and so on. So what I'm saying is here I'm more Hegelian. In what sense? too simple to claim almost that Stalin was too fanatically arrogantly faithful to the communist idea, you know, like he wanted to impose it too directly, brutally. No, I'm…

…you know, like he wanted to impose it too directly, brutally. No, I'm much more naive here. I think the problem is not that Stalin wanted to as an order of being, but that simply there was something wrong in his communist idea, you know, that the idea…

…museums of communism already exist. In practically all in Budapest, for example, when I bought a wonderful thing, a candle as a figure of Stalin, and then you light a candle as a figure of Stalin. Okay, let's go on. What I also share with you is at…

…for example, when I bought a wonderful thing, a candle as a figure of Stalin, and then you light a candle as a figure of Stalin. Okay, let's go on. What I also share with you is at least the first part of your critique of Badiou, that is to say…

…they want to make their own two minutes. Please go on. You have to answer in five minutes. Now, you are going to be Stalin here. No, you are Stalin. Or you. Up to you. Okay. So, this is a question from Sresh Tawagis. And her question is that,…

…own two minutes. Please go on. You have to answer in five minutes. Now, you are going to be Stalin here. No, you are Stalin. Or you. Up to you. Okay. So, this is a question from Sresh Tawagis. And her question is that, unholy alliances in Indian life…

…situation is very complex. Where? The situation is always complex. World War II. It was not simply democracy against Nazism, because, I'm sorry, Stalin was not a democrat and so on, and we had to join forces. But let me directly bomb you with a great…

…are Sebastian. Yes, yes. Somebody call me Sebastian? No, no, no. Do you know the old DDR from early 50s pro-Stalin song? Stalin, Freund, Genosse. Very good. That's my thing about you. Sebastian, Freund, Genosse. And the song that I will sing for you from…

…at the same time, Malevich and Chagall were teaching. They couldn't stand each other and so on. It was a golden era. Then, with Stalin, the line changed, which is why today in Russia, Lenin is out, Stalin is half in. And also... This idea of... This is…

…other and so on. It was a golden era. Then, with Stalin, the line changed, which is why today in Russia, Lenin is out, Stalin is half in. And also... This idea of... This is the most dangerous line of argumentation. I don't know if you have it here.…

…will make the cut. I will make the scansion in the Lacanian sense. No, fuck this. You make the Stalinist cut. Enough comments. Stalin and Lacan. That was actually a debate we had recently, which was, was Kojev a Stalinist? And did Lacan read Kojev as a…

…even the prohibition publicly. My popular example from Stalinism. In Soviet Union, there was not only prohibited to criticize publicly Stalin, of course, it was also prohibited to publicly say that it is prohibited to criticize Stalin. Imagine we are in…

…only prohibited to criticize publicly Stalin, of course, it was also prohibited to publicly say that it is prohibited to criticize Stalin. Imagine we are in a central committee session, I'm Stalin. Somebody raises his hand and criticizes me. Okay, next the…

…was also prohibited to publicly say that it is prohibited to criticize Stalin. Imagine we are in a central committee session, I'm Stalin. Somebody raises his hand and criticizes me. Okay, next the question will be whose guy to see him alive. But let's…

…see him alive. But let's imagine then somebody else like you, Timofey. You stand up and say to this guy who attacked me, Stalin, are you stupid? Don't you know in our country it is prohibited to criticize Stalin? You will disappear even faster, I claim.…

…say to this guy who attacked me, Stalin, are you stupid? Don't you know in our country it is prohibited to criticize Stalin? You will disappear even faster, I claim. You see the paradox. It was prohibited to criticize Stalin, but this prohibition itself…

…is prohibited to criticize Stalin? You will disappear even faster, I claim. You see the paradox. It was prohibited to criticize Stalin, but this prohibition itself had to remain secret. And I think that all our... diplomacy today, even war moves. When Putin…

…power, you get two years in gulag, but that's another story. Seriously, so you think, if I may quote the immortal comrade Stalin, that in the choice Merkel versus Schäuble, which was worse, they were both worse? Or is there... I preferred Schäuble any…

…the irrationality of Soviet system. He was extremely influential but you know what was his function? He survived them all. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev. He said this were pre-digital times. He said, pre-digital times, a couple of shelves with thousands of…

…all occasions. If, for example, Russia wanted a war with Finland in 1939, he found a quote from Lenin. And all of them, from Stalin onwards, came to him. This is the party line, finds quotes from Lenin to support it. And it's incredible how what he did…

…shouldn't do them. It can be dangerous, like extreme example. In Stalinist Soviet Union, it was prohibited, of course, to criticize Stalin. But it was even more prohibited to announce this publicly. You were immediately arrested if you said, in our country,…

…prohibited to announce this publicly. You were immediately arrested if you said, in our country, we are not allowed to criticize Comrade Stalin and so on and so on. Then this brings us to the ultimate paradox, which I already mentioned, that we don't only…

…was listening to Hitler from the very beginning. And he knew it immediately that Hitler is even more dangerous than Soviet Union, than Stalin. And as a great conservative, he saw it, sorry, I hate communism, but at this point we have to unite with Russia…

…I will say something horrible, but imagine a total catastrophe. What does it mean? It's horrible what I'm saying now. I'm like leaving Stalin, but not more than 20, 30 million people will probably die. You know, with all the horror, now we are at two…

…interested in your opinion. You're already a member of our network. It's a critical post-media network. It's not enough to be a member. Stalin was also just a member of the Politburo. We must reverse Stalin. You want to be a new Stalin or what? I love…

…It's a critical post-media network. It's not enough to be a member. Stalin was also just a member of the Politburo. We must reverse Stalin. You want to be a new Stalin or what? I love that. No, quite seriously. I would love to see, because I am...…

…enough to be a member. Stalin was also just a member of the Politburo. We must reverse Stalin. You want to be a new Stalin or what? I love that. No, quite seriously. I would love to see, because I am... Especially when I'm caught into some convincing,…

…dialectical materialism, it's of course meant as the ultimate Serious joke, but a joke. Like, if you mean by dialectical materialism, what Stalin did and his followers and so on and so on. Do you know, by the way, that dialectical materialism is not a…

…there will be money. Then there are radical Trotskyites who say, no, money is alienation. There will be no money. Then Comrade Stalin wisely intervenes and says, no, it will be, here I come to you, dialectical synthesis of There will be money and there…

…of There will be money and there will not be money. We ask him, oh my God, what a great idea. Tell us, Comrade Stalin, how do you mean it? You know what he answers. Very simply, some people will have money and other people will not have money.…

…End. 20th century is full of this Bolshevik revolution. I still believe it was meant as a gigantic step towards emancipation. Then Comrade Stalin comes and gives it a specific spin. And I'm not saying as some naive guys, oh, if only Lenin were to survive…

…out. You and your producer have all the authority to do If I put it like this, a nice Stalinist perch that would make Comrade Stalin laugh with pleasure in his grave with my text, with my what I said. I just want to say one thing very, very quickly,…

…know this story, I use it all the time. This is what I find so crazy about Stalinism. It was prohibited to criticize Stalin. But it was even more prohibited to say publicly, in our country, you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. Absolutely to obey it.…

…was prohibited to criticize Stalin. But it was even more prohibited to say publicly, in our country, you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. Absolutely to obey it. Sorry, please go on. No, no, go ahead. In Pandemic 2, you made a kind of like... you…

…anti-black racism is really the model, the structural matrix, whatever you put it, of racism. And next thing, why then Comrade Stalin has to enter? Why no lights matter? Because I disagree here with Georgia Agamben, who said we are becoming just…

…him or you are a socialist communist, you know. Right. It's almost like inverted Stalinism. Therefore, Stalinists, if you are against Stalin, you are a neo-fascist or whatever. It's horrible. Listen, I have to stop now. I'm sorry. Yes, we'll let you go.…

…implicated in these forms of suffering. So, I think that we should be critical here. For example, I always... I prefer Stalin to them. Those Trotskyite critics of October Revolution, you know, with this dream, at the beginning it had emancipatory potential,…

…pact with Trotsky, we would have... gotten what? I don't know. But certainly this very criteria by means of which Trotsky's Judge Stalin are for me absolutely unconditionally implicated in it. Now I want to turn to the big target of my critique, to this…

…him almost in an orgasmic intellectual effort, or October Revolution, it began nice, global anticipation, ah, a certain comrade from Georgia, Stalin, comes and gives another turn to it, and even today, Hegel is never a guy of happy ending. He would have…

…progress exploded into this? Or another example, communism. It began as a noble attempt of radical emancipation. It ended with Comrade Stalin and so on, you know. And so what's Hegel's point here? Here, I again, in a friendly way, disagree with Judith…

…was for him, as we know, even Soviet Union, at some point for Khozhev, he thought that Soviet Union is absolute knowledge embodied in Stalin and so on. You know that there are proofs that Khozhev was in the late 40s, early 50s, a Soviet agent. No, no.…

…materialism, it's of course meant as the ultimate goal. Serious joke, but a joke. Like, if you mean by dialectical materialism, what Stalin did and his followers and so on and so on. Do you know, by the way, that dialectical materialism is not a…

…there will be money. Then there are radical Trotskyites who say, no, money is alienation, there will be no money. Then Comrade Stalin wisely intervenes and says, no, it will be, here I come to you, dialectical synthesis of money. There will be money and…

…money. There will be money and there will not be money. You ask him, oh my God, what a great idea. Tell us, Comrade Stalin, how do you mean it? You know what he answers. Very simply, some people will have money and other people will not have money.…

…many Marxist friends of mine try to define the moment when things went wrong. For Trotskyites, Lenin is still good. It's with Stalin that things went wrong. For others, it's Lenin. For some, it's already Marx. No, I think in some sense, even if Marx…

…to spread another, even more dangerous virus. And of course, what he did is communism. Then he associated, you know, what communism is from Stalin and so on. No. And this is what I want. My answer is no. I just am looking at what governments are doing…

…so on and so on. It was to all of us so obvious that it didn't work, that it couldn't work. Interesting. Okay. Lenin and Stalin, one word for each. What I appreciate in Lenin, he was very ruthless and so on. I admit all that. But his, again, immense…

…dictated, he lived a terrifying life. He saw that the game is lost, you know. And, you know, his last attempt to overthrow Stalin and so on and so on. Concerning Stalin, yes, a nightmare, catastrophe, whatever you want. But don't dismiss him as an idiot.…

…that the game is lost, you know. And, you know, his last attempt to overthrow Stalin and so on and so on. Concerning Stalin, yes, a nightmare, catastrophe, whatever you want. But don't dismiss him as an idiot. I don't think anybody does. Yeah, yeah. He…

…And Trotsky approached it in an arrogant way, writing books about literature and so on, trusting his fame. You know what Stalin did in 23? He nominated over 100,000 cadre, people at minor position here and there. And Trotsky even didn't know it,…

…And Trotsky even didn't know it, but the game was lost at the end of 1923. The entire party apparatus was controlled by Stalin. If I may conclude another metaphor that I always use from comics. You know that wonderful moment in Tom and Jerry where a…

…Nikolai Bukharin, who was more pro-market Bolshevik, and Rykov, who was the prime minister. They were both, of course, then liquidated by Stalin, no? If that faction were to win, I'm not saying it would be a flourishing democracy in our sense, but maybe…

…a Stalinist. They are the party... and I only dare nomenclatura. Fuck you, you are ordinary parliament members. Because you know Stalin said this wonderfully, he said our greatest treasure are people, that is to say cadre, nomenclatura, as if others don't…

…in Stalinism, you know. They were obsessed by the idea that if some small private vice becomes public, like, can you imagine Stalin telling a dirty joke or having a vulgar moment? It's as if they believed in the power of appearance. And the Chinese…

…mask. No warm human person and so on and so on. And this is for me, the moment of truth. All totalitarian leaders speak Stalin, Hitler played the opposite game. You know, I do cruel thing on behalf of the big cause I'm standing for, but privately I…

…Max Horkheimer to organize Frankfurt School, it was not from an Argentinian student of Horkheimer, but it really came from Moscow. Stalin personally We need psychoanalysis and so on. So they finalized from the very beginning Frankfurt School and so on and…

…parts of the left's inheritance, Stalinism and so on. Don't fall into this trap of portraying the executors, even of Stalin, described as evil, sneering individuals, pursuing private goals. No, the most horrible evil is the evil, again, inscribed into the…

…much for your attention. All right. Now that Salva cleared up everything, we're going to have a Q&A and a discussion. You know who Stalin is? Did No, no, no. But yeah, please feel free to share your thoughts. Please try to... If you have to frame your…

…here. I want to engage in a brief dialogue with you. You know, I'm a Stalinist policeman. You will not just provoke Robert Stalin. But, okay, but why... This is a very serious problem, yes. What we are doing with nature, catastrophes, and so on, and so…

…innocent and so on. I mean, about Stalinism. Shh, shh. about proletarian position that you mentioned. For Marx, it's not the way Stalin describes it. Social analyst, look at history and see a tendency. Oh my God, look, proletariat is now weak, but the…

…and receives the applause. Check it out if you don't believe me in old... documents from communist party congresses, whenever people applaud to Stalin, he stands up and joins the applause. You know, the message is, I am one with you, I am not the master,…

…year on Stalin's birthday in a Gulag camp, all inmates were brought together and they all had to sign a telegram to Stalin wishing him all the best. Can you imagine something like this? It doesn't work in Nazism. On Hitler's birthday, they collect juice…

…this? And that would have been the same logic and so on. And it's also so nice to see how all the things that... Even Stalin is, don't be afraid, I'm not in any sense of Stalin, but like they mention Ukrainian famine, you know, horror and so on, how…

…And it's also so nice to see how all the things that... Even Stalin is, don't be afraid, I'm not in any sense of Stalin, but like they mention Ukrainian famine, you know, horror and so on, how in Soviet Russia they simply isolated that part where the…

…much this, how do ordinary people live it, experience life. I... became so clear to me from reading some historical books, why Stalin won. Trotsky didn't have a chance. I simplify now the picture, but you know what was basically the situation. Look, 24,…

…the civil war is over, Bolsheviks won and then also it was clear that there will be no European revolution. So What Stalin did, it was quite ingenious. He wasn't yet radical there. He was more with Bukharin. He said, okay, ten years of hell,…

…more with Bukharin. He said, okay, ten years of hell, let's bring a little bit of normality. That's what meant for Stalin, socialism in one country. Let's stop playing this permanent state of emergency. Let's get a return to some normal life, stabilization,…

…Trotsky, the idiot, comes and says, no permanent revolution, why don't we get some more suffering, and so on. Don't underestimate Stalin. It wasn't, you absolutely, you don't need any of this dark plotting, whatever, torture, and so on. Stalin... It's not…

…on. Don't underestimate Stalin. It wasn't, you absolutely, you don't need any of this dark plotting, whatever, torture, and so on. Stalin... It's not even very intelligent, but in just this cunning, almost, you know, ordinary farmers can be tricky cunning in…

…his life to how to take care of all these problems, and so on. And he began losing power, because the real power, those... Stalin, even up to a point Trotsky, they said, oh, fine, you take care of this, we will fight real political games. But he was…

…I repeat, but I always like this. When Prokofiev died, you know when he died, it's wonderful, destiny, God, on the same day as Stalin. That's why French were not able to do the proper burial because for all roses or flowers were sold out for the other…

…gesture Oistrakh played this second movement there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this same sonata got two years earlier the biggest Stalin prize, you know, which is the Christ. It's so, you cannot understand Stalinism without, again, taking into account all this…

…is in German prison, and in the last scene, on a plane, on a flight in Berlin, they are looking for each other, then Stalin comes, which he never did, lands, gives a speech, and the girl looks into Stalin's face and sees where Stalin is looking and…

…each other, then Stalin comes, which he never did, lands, gives a speech, and the girl looks into Stalin's face and sees where Stalin is looking and sees him, you know, and then she steps towards Stalin, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, and so…

…and the girl looks into Stalin's face and sees where Stalin is looking and sees him, you know, and then she steps towards Stalin, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, and so on. It's Absolutely. So, in other words, this typical Hollywood logic, the…

…girl looks into Stalin's face and sees where Stalin is looking and sees him, you know, and then she steps towards Stalin, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, and so on. It's Absolutely. So, in other words, this typical Hollywood logic, the example I…

…in that film, see it if you don't believe it. October Revolution is set as a background for their passionate lovemaking. Yeah. Literally. But Stalin is the same, my God, in this film. In this symbolic space of echoes, World War II is one so that a guy…

…Chiarelli, The Fall of Berlin from 49. I warn you that these scenes, especially those you see now, were written, co-written by Stalin himself. the actor who plays Stalin was prohibited to play any other roles, because he cannot be Stalin. What shocked me…

…49. I warn you that these scenes, especially those you see now, were written, co-written by Stalin himself. the actor who plays Stalin was prohibited to play any other roles, because he cannot be Stalin. What shocked me so much is how this film perfectly…

…written, co-written by Stalin himself. the actor who plays Stalin was prohibited to play any other roles, because he cannot be Stalin. What shocked me so much is how this film perfectly reproduces the Hollywood formula of creation of the couple. Let me…

…teacher or librarian girl, but is afraid to approach her, doesn't know how. As a model worker, he gets a call to visit Stalin because he got that Lenin's medal, whatever. And then this scene was cut out in the Khrushchev era because it was considered…

…this scene was cut out in the Khrushchev era because it was considered too much. In the scenes which is unfortunately cut out, Stalin notices that the guy is nervous and then he asks him, this ordinary worker, tell me, comrade, what is wrong? And the…

…and then he asks him, this ordinary worker, tell me, comrade, what is wrong? And the guy confesses to him, listen, comrade Stalin, I'm in love, don't know how to do. And then she's the top of Stalinist pornography. Stalin gives him precise advice. It's…

…guy confesses to him, listen, comrade Stalin, I'm in love, don't know how to do. And then she's the top of Stalinist pornography. Stalin gives him precise advice. It's like, grab her hand like this, recite to her this poem by Pushkin and so on. They cut…

…on internet. Then we will cut to the scene where he returns back to the girl, the hero, and of course, my God, if Stalin gives you his advice, it's okay. So they are officially lovers. He takes her to a field, probably to do certain things with her.…

…if again the whole point of the war is to reunite the lovers in a wonderful terrifyingly wonderful final scene you will see Stalin arrives among the crowd and how be attentive to the looks exchange of gazes how the two lovers are united through mediation…

…arrives among the crowd and how be attentive to the looks exchange of gazes how the two lovers are united through mediation of Stalin they look at Stalin they look where Stalin looks they see each other and then in the final scene the woman, before…

…and how be attentive to the looks exchange of gazes how the two lovers are united through mediation of Stalin they look at Stalin they look where Stalin looks they see each other and then in the final scene the woman, before kissing, they just embrace…

…to the looks exchange of gazes how the two lovers are united through mediation of Stalin they look at Stalin they look where Stalin looks they see each other and then in the final scene the woman, before kissing, they just embrace her lover, walks to…

…looks they see each other and then in the final scene the woman, before kissing, they just embrace her lover, walks to Stalin and says, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, please? Stalin himself wrote this scene, remember, as a scenario, and according…

…other and then in the final scene the woman, before kissing, they just embrace her lover, walks to Stalin and says, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, please? Stalin himself wrote this scene, remember, as a scenario, and according to some sources in…

…woman, before kissing, they just embrace her lover, walks to Stalin and says, Comrade Stalin, can I give you a kiss, please? Stalin himself wrote this scene, remember, as a scenario, and according to some sources in the history of Soviet cinema, when he…

…now. Exactly now when the love would have been consummated. Okay, now you will see a little bit of a speech by Stalin. So that we don't lose time, I will go on drawing another attention, sorry, attention to another detail which is crucial. usually…

…itself is prohibited, in the sense that, what is the same? Okay, let's just imagine that we are now in Moscow in 37. I am Stalin, I deliver the speech, then there is debate. Let's say that one of you stands up and attacks me. This will not end good.…

…another one of you, stands up then and attacks the first guy, like, are you crazy? Don't you know that we don't criticize Comrade Stalin here? How dare you talk like that? I claim the second guy will be arrested even faster. That is to say, it wasn't…

…I claim the second guy will be arrested even faster. That is to say, it wasn't only that it was forbidden to criticize Stalin, it was also forbidden to publicly announce this criticism as such. You know, you have to pretend that I could have, but I…

…birthday, even in the darkest Gulag, Kolima, Magadan, all the prisoners were assembled and they all had to sign a telegram to Stalin wishing him all the best and success and so on. You cannot even imagine this like in Nazi Germany, what to collect…

…bar, let's do it. That it must be somehow recorded. that we both agree. Either on camera, we sign it, and so on. I like Stalin would be jumping out of pleasure in his grave. Like, you know, everything has to be recorded by the state and so on, you…

…to shock my friends. We should be against racism. But selectively, losing time, give orders. Ah, recording. Long live Comrade Stalin. No freedom for the enemies of freedom. My favorite, Robespierre. Okay, okay, okay. First question. Žižek is famously a critic…

…tragic comical moment, but it's comical. For example, October Revolution started as liberation and so on and so on. At the end you get Stalin and so on. This is a very tragic joke, but it's a mega joke. But my underlying idea here is that, again, we…

…Let's imagine, what a nice dream, that we are in 1937 in Moscow. It's central committee. I sacrifice myself to the role of Stalin. I'm Stalin. I give a speech. Of course, you don't have a choice. You applaud frenetically at the end. Then there is a…

…what a nice dream, that we are in 1937 in Moscow. It's central committee. I sacrifice myself to the role of Stalin. I'm Stalin. I give a speech. Of course, you don't have a choice. You applaud frenetically at the end. Then there is a debate. Okay.…

…the last. Okay, but let's then say that another one of you stands up and shouts at that guy who criticized me, Stalin, telling him something like, but are you crazy to criticize Comrade Stalin? Aren't you aware that this is prohibited, that we don't…

…stands up and shouts at that guy who criticized me, Stalin, telling him something like, but are you crazy to criticize Comrade Stalin? Aren't you aware that this is prohibited, that we don't do this in Soviet Union? I guarantee you the second guy would…

…disappeared even faster than the first one. So you see the point. It's not only that it was prohibited to criticize Stalin. It was even more prohibited to announce publicly this prohibition. And it's the same with the wonderful example that you, Alenka,…

…I thank you for that, because I would like to answer. I love you now. You know why? You know who talked like this? Stalin. He always asked himself a question and then answered it. Okay, I'm higher than you, so I'm not holding the seashell, but I have…

…like the one who recently died, unfortunately, the Italian Marxist Domenico Lo Surdo, along these lines they even try to rehabilitate Stalin and Mao and China today. They claim that what is happening now in China, China is still socialism because Communist…

…now which shocked me. You know, everybody who tries to redeem Lenin quotes his famous testament where he said we should depose Stalin and so on. But how many people noticed a simple thing? What are Lenin's arguments against Stalin? It's not the political…

…where he said we should depose Stalin and so on. But how many people noticed a simple thing? What are Lenin's arguments against Stalin? It's not the political line Stalin is to write, no. Lenin is saying Stalin is too rude and so on and so on.…

…depose Stalin and so on. But how many people noticed a simple thing? What are Lenin's arguments against Stalin? It's not the political line Stalin is to write, no. Lenin is saying Stalin is too rude and so on and so on. And this is not just with…

…people noticed a simple thing? What are Lenin's arguments against Stalin? It's not the political line Stalin is to write, no. Lenin is saying Stalin is too rude and so on and so on. And this is not just with Stalin. I find this so admirable. It's not…

…line Stalin is to write, no. Lenin is saying Stalin is too rude and so on and so on. And this is not just with Stalin. I find this so admirable. It's not radical enough. Lenin was guilty for it. But how all of a sudden in the last years Lenin…

…when somebody said, an enemy is somebody whose story you were not prepared to listen. My reaction was, ah, good to know, so Stalin and Hitler are our enemies because we did not listen. No, there is something terribly wrong in this ideology of just open…

…of them, the greatest dissidents, Pasternak, Malderskam, they were all, you can see from private notes, in a very ambiguous way, fascinated by Stalin, and so on. So what we can do, the first thing to do, and it's very important thing to do, it's the…

…goes like this. After communist revolutions, direct political, failed in early 20s, Communist, Cominter and Lenin, whoever was there, Stalin, decided that we failed because we underestimated the strength of the Christian moral convictions of Western people. So…

…he says, describes very convincingly how... Trotsky, who we know now was the true master of the October Revolution, did it. Stalin and the majority of the Politburo of the Bolsheviks, even Lenin was oscillating here, still thought about revolution in the…

…that in Gulag, every year on Stalin's birthday, they gathered all the inmates who had to sign a telegram of congratulations to Comrade Stalin, wishing him all the best, and so on and so on. Of course, it was a ridiculous ritual. It was not serious. But…

…Stalinist show trials, you know where the tortured prisoners admit, yes, I collaborated in a plot to overthrow and kill Comrade Stalin. Such a thing doesn't Cannot happen. Doesn't have any place in the Nazi or fascist universe. Hitler could have easily done…

…revolution if you first destroy the moral foundations of a society. That's why, and here comes the paranoia, that Bolsheviks, Stalin, and so on, directly through this detour of Argentina, financed Frankfurt School, Adorno, Horkheimer, and so on, to destroy…

…this horror, because I try to imagine it concretely. communist center in Moscow directly created Frankfurt School I mean can you imagine Stalin deciding you know like oh my god Adorno he sounds interesting let's give him some money to develop and so on…

…me, and then I stop my favorite joke, which I use even with my class, imagine it's a dream. We are in Moscow, 37, I'm Stalin. Everybody has the right to dream. I give a speech. You applause. Then there is a debate to the central committee. One of you…

…I give a speech. You applause. Then there is a debate to the central committee. One of you says, I don't agree with Comrade Stalin. He made some mistakes here and so on and so on. Okay. We know what this means. Next day the big question will be…

…raises his hand and says to the first guy, are you crazy? We are in Soviet Union. You are not expected to criticize Stalin like this. My point is, the second guy would have disappeared even faster. It wasn't just prohibited to criticize Stalin. It was…

…to criticize Stalin like this. My point is, the second guy would have disappeared even faster. It wasn't just prohibited to criticize Stalin. It was prohibited even more to say publicly that you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. And, you know, Trump is…

…It wasn't just prohibited to criticize Stalin. It was prohibited even more to say publicly that you are not allowed to criticize Stalin. And, you know, Trump is breaking these secondary rules, and that's why I am really afraid, you know, like, what if he…

…Immediately, the guy wants to ask something. Lenin's famous testament... when he proposes, just before his final stroke, to depose Stalin. Read it. It's an incredible document. He doesn't depose Stalin with wrong political line. It's all decency. Korma Stalin…

…testament... when he proposes, just before his final stroke, to depose Stalin. Read it. It's an incredible document. He doesn't depose Stalin with wrong political line. It's all decency. Korma Stalin is too rude. He doesn't have good manners enough. It's an…

…to depose Stalin. Read it. It's an incredible document. He doesn't depose Stalin with wrong political line. It's all decency. Korma Stalin is too rude. He doesn't have good manners enough. It's an extraordinary turn in lately. So I deeply agree with you…

…hear this Freudian slip. Okay, but maybe I am... Yeah, but you know, these are fragmentary, like when in front of Stalin somebody says, instead of long-leaf Stalin, long-leaf Trotsky, you know, like... Because you are just aware what type of script you…

…I am... Yeah, but you know, these are fragmentary, like when in front of Stalin somebody says, instead of long-leaf Stalin, long-leaf Trotsky, you know, like... Because you are just aware what type of script you are committing. Absolutely, yes, absolutely,…

…reversal of great emancipatory hopes in the Soviet Union into a self-destructive terrorist violence of Stalinist purpose? Was in this sense Stalin not the jocaster of the 20th century, and is in our time individual freedom, freedom of choice, also not a…

…that in the last two years of his life, Lenin becomes aware of how dangerous the situation is, he focuses his work on Stalin, but in what way? Nikola Lubitsch said in an interview that his father, Ernst, if he hated something, found it the lowest…

…a lack of chastity, politeness, gentleness. This is a permanent motive in last Lenin's letters. You remember the famous attack on Stalin in Lenin's so-called testimony. Or, ladies, I will not read it, not to lose time, criticism of Stalin is about manners.…

…the famous attack on Stalin in Lenin's so-called testimony. Or, ladies, I will not read it, not to lose time, criticism of Stalin is about manners. It's not Stalin has the wrong political line, or whatever, it's Comrade Stalin is too rude, he doesn't have…

…Lenin's so-called testimony. Or, ladies, I will not read it, not to lose time, criticism of Stalin is about manners. It's not Stalin has the wrong political line, or whatever, it's Comrade Stalin is too rude, he doesn't have manners. How to treat comrades,…

…not to lose time, criticism of Stalin is about manners. It's not Stalin has the wrong political line, or whatever, it's Comrade Stalin is too rude, he doesn't have manners. How to treat comrades, and so on. Even more, it's not just this general point.…

…doing something serious, and so on and so on. And I think we would have gotten something similar from Stalinist leaders. Stalin despised incredibly people who argued with seriously quoting Lenin, Marx or whatever. What mattered to him is Russia should be…

…in the early development of the Soviet movement for a move, for a shift towards Stalinism, something like that. If not Stalin, then another person, maybe even Trotsky, would have played the same role. It might have been a little bit different, but…

…what makes them dangerous is that we don't take the situation seriously. Thanks very much. Ah, I finished. You know, I feel like Stalin now. You know, if you go to YouTube, put it on YouTube, Stalin angry. It's a wonderful three minutes and a half clip…

…Thanks very much. Ah, I finished. You know, I feel like Stalin now. You know, if you go to YouTube, put it on YouTube, Stalin angry. It's a wonderful three minutes and a half clip where you see Stalin documentary at the end of a speech and people…

…know, if you go to YouTube, put it on YouTube, Stalin angry. It's a wonderful three minutes and a half clip where you see Stalin documentary at the end of a speech and people applaud. And you can see how, okay, nice, nice. And then he gets tired of…

…it. And he gets really angry but cannot stop them because they are afraid to stop, you know. I felt a little bit like Stalin, but okay. let me first allow for a maybe fruitful small revenge. Have you seen the film Ida by Pawlikowski? Not yet. No, no,…

…In the 20s, that was the golden era. In the Tsarist regime, it was not acknowledged as a language of its own. So Stalin was here, and it's so nice. This Lenin's tendency was so radical that in 1922, Stalin attacked Lenin as a bourgeois liberal…

…as a language of its own. So Stalin was here, and it's so nice. This Lenin's tendency was so radical that in 1922, Stalin attacked Lenin as a bourgeois liberal nationalist. You know, it was a big conflict even with Rosa Luxemburg, who opposed here Lenin,…

…late writings this despair of the last two years of Lenin where while being fully responsible for the state of things with Stalin and so on, gaining power, it becomes clearer and clearer to him that something went terribly wrong. Okay, read the book so…

…time. I would like to point this out. You know that famous Lenin's so-called testament, advising, asking the Politburo to remove Stalin. today especially, and also in view of Trump and other obscenities. We should be attentive to this along the lines of…

…We should be attentive to this along the lines of what I mentioned, moral majority and so on. Read it. Lenin's approach to Stalin is not wrong political line, whatever it is. Stalin doesn't have good manners. He is too rude, too brutal, and so on and…

…of what I mentioned, moral majority and so on. Read it. Lenin's approach to Stalin is not wrong political line, whatever it is. Stalin doesn't have good manners. He is too rude, too brutal, and so on and so on. This is a beautiful point. Late Lenin…

…have some marginal, but nobody in Germany as far as I know accused socialism. Hitler in the same way as Trotsky accused Stalin of betraying the revolution. I don't remember anyone accusing Hitler of this. And now, just to conclude, I would like to praise…

…if you included this there, you know, this basic difference between fascism and Stalinism. Fascism, Hitler is a figure of voice. Stalin is a figure of writing, interpretation of sacred texts, and so many other things follow for this. Just one example to…

…year in Gulag, in the worst years, on Stalin's birthday, all the inmates were... collected, and each had to sign a telegram to Stalin wishing him happy. Okay, it was a fake, but you cannot even imagine the same thing in Nazism, collecting all the Jews…

…levels preoccupate with elementary rules of social intercourse. his life. You know that famous letter that Lenin wrote proposing to fire Stalin from the post of general secretary? Okay, we all know this. And I don't want even to exaggerate this, like who…

…of Lenin, he saw it, okay, obviously he saw it a little bit too late maybe, you know. that Lenin's basic reproach to Stalin is not wrong politics or whatever. It's simply, this guy does not have good manners. And I fear that without any irony, we…

…things, there will be alienation, production will be immediately socialized in communism, there will be no money. Then Comrade Stalin intervenes and said, no, you are rightist and leftist deviation. The truth is that dialectical synthesis, there will be…

…synthesis, there will be money and there will not be money. And then people ask, oh, what a genius idea, but Comrade Stalin, tell us how this will work. Well, you can guess what Stalin answers. some people will have money, other people will not…

…money. And then people ask, oh, what a genius idea, but Comrade Stalin, tell us how this will work. Well, you can guess what Stalin answers. some people will have money, other people will not have money. So I think that now it's easy to laugh at this,…

…good machine, we need to move further. So, again, you have this tendency now to provoke you again. I would say that here, Stalin, I mean this in a very provocative way. I don't in any way want to praise Stalin, but to re-humanize the dimension. Because,…

…I would say that here, Stalin, I mean this in a very provocative way. I don't in any way want to praise Stalin, but to re-humanize the dimension. Because, you know, the official ideology of those, just like all them, technognostic people who wanted to…

…There was a biologist called Ilya Vasiliev or something like this from the late 20s who already and was vastly financed by Stalin, had the idea and he was the follower of Bogdanov. the one attacked by Lenin, that maybe through coupling organizing sex…

…relations of domination. Which unfortunately happened exactly in Stalinism and so on. Although incidentally, don't have any illusions there. Stalin didn't have any problem with social differences, you know that. history of Soviet Union, you will learn that in…

…And he sees it correctly in that book. I wonder if we will have time to debate this. You cannot simply say Stalin is a deviation. Stalin did propose a solution to a certain deadlock. in Leninism already. But I nonetheless don't agree with his…