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My problem with liberal anticommunist historians is that if anything they are not critical enough [of the] Stalinist regime. They reduce it to bad people who wanted money, power, whatever. (...) Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
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Zizek explores many different ideologies that crop up around the topic of ecological disaster.
I don't agree with everything he says. I'm sharing this nevertheless, because it made me think if the reason for my objections is due to the text hitting too close to home.
Listening to an interview with #Zizek and he rightly points out how confused our society is when it comes to things we label "possible" vs "impossible".
Singularity or colonizing Mars in our collective imagination is possible, while taxing the rich or UBI is impossible.