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[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That’s giving this loser far too much credit. He has ruined my appetite a few times though

[–] jack@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (7 children)

No, actually Zizek really did play a major role in bringing down Yugoslavia.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/to-begin-at-the-beginning-again-zizek-in-yugoslavia/E9C85EB526CECED3EC3E3EFAC23FCE38

https://www.idcommunism.com/2017/03/an-apologist-of-imperialism-slavoj.html

From his wikipedia:

In the late 1980s, Žižek came to public attention as a columnist for the alternative youth magazine Mladina, which was critical of Tito's policies and Yugoslav politics, especially the militarization of society. He was a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia until October 1988, when he quit in protest against the JBTZ trial together with 32 other Slovenian intellectuals.[33] Between 1988 and 1990, he was actively involved in several political and civil society movements which fought for the democratization of Slovenia, most notably the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights.[34] In the first free elections in 1990, he ran as the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate for the former four-person collective presidency of Slovenia. He only slightly missed becoming elected, receiving the fifth-most votes.[24]

It's worth reading Mladina's wiki page to get an overview as well, but here's a few brief excerpts.

Trying to publish Nazi imagery:

In 1987, the poster design contest for the annual Relay of Youth, a customary Yugoslav youth relay race intended to celebrate the birthday of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, was won by an entry by Neue Slowenische Kunst, a Slovenian avant-garde art collective. The design was later found to have been based on a Nazi propaganda art image by Nazi artist Richard Klein, restyled in the fashion of socialist realism which was traditionally favoured by the Yugoslavia state as a subtle protest of Tito's cult of personality. Mladina attempted to feature the image on its cover page, but the attempt was prohibited by censors; if Mladina indeed went through with the idea and went to print with the design on its cover, the magazine would have been outlawed. Instead, the editors decided to circumvent the ultimatum by publishing the image on the inner sleeve as a centrefold, printing a critical article discussing the affair under the title "In Place of a Cover" on the cover page instead.

Opposing arms to the global south:

Due to its influence and radical stances, Mladina was seen as an "enemy of the state" and was consequently monitored by the authorities because of its pacifist stance, manifested, among other things, in its firm opposition to Yugoslavia's arms sales to developing countries.

And bringing down Yugoslavia:

Mladina's reporting "pushed on the boundaries until they started to fall down"; the magazine had a direct and integral role in bringing about the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

You do not hate Zizek enough. None of you hate Zizek enough!

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Does that NSK connection mean Laibach are not, in fact, Communists?

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