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On page 247, when Prof. Zizek speaks of the architecture in communist Albania, there are two mistakes I would like to point out. First, the number of bunkers build by the regime for military purposes is 700,000 and secondly, the population of Albania (as of 2010 when the book was written) was 3.1 million people.
- Elian Gjini

In response to Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek

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Can I please read this book?

Here in the UK, it is very hard to get a copy of this book for under £25. I have requested on the Amazon.co.uk site that a Kindle edition be published (giving the scarcity of this book) but I fear that it may take some time.

So, here I am. Pleading with you to please, please make this book available to those who wish to pay a fair price for it, and not an exorbitant amount as listed on Amazon.

May this reach the necessary people promptly! and if not... please log onto Amazon.co.uk and request the publisher create a kindle edition.

That is all, thank you.

In response to The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

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'Twitter' a 'creative' communist manifesto, and win some books?

Oh dear, dear. I mean, what? Don't you think you are trivialising, not to mention commercialising, things?

Ah, but you have an argument. To wit: 'In the book, Adorno notes that “we live in the society we criticize.” Furthermore, in the twenty-first century, we also tweet in the society we criticize. Thus to launch the book, we are pleased to announce a brand-new twitter competition challenging you to tweet a #manifesto for a communism for the twenty-first century.' What kind of an inference is that, though? I also take baths within the society I criticise (well, for a certain sense of 'within'); so should we have a communist bathing competition? Perhaps you can spell out what you mean.

In response to Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

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Actuality of communist revolution and of Lenin.

Lukacs wrote this book when he was still Leninist. It is the best book which he has ever written. Also one of the best (few) books on Lenin and Leninism.

In response to Lenin by Georg Lukács

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Communism, Christianity and Capitalism.

Zizek often speaks of giving to the Devil what belongs to the Devil when it comes to Capitalism. I hold that even the Devil was surprised with the victory of Capitalism over 20th centaury Communism.

Was Communism not exactly the great effort of the Devil to sell us Heaven without Emancipation?

The Devil must have been terribly surprised to see that Capital was worshiped rather than his fake Heaven, 20th centaury communism. It is also then not surprising that for Christians (the emancipated) the final frontier, the final enemy is surprisingly enough not the Devil but Capital, money. Remember what Jesus said: You cannot have two masters; otherwise you will hate the one and love the other, you cannot serve Mammon and God. But hating money is still a sign of divided interests, still hating the one and loving the other. So… there will be no blood for Capitalism, the fight does not exist for Christians; they are emancipated even from this! They are already socialists and where they go, goes socialism. Like Jesus said to the emancipated: Don’t look around to see and find the Kingdom of God, it is close to you, even in you. For those who wish to see rioting revolutionaries as a means to the end of Capitalism, Christianity would be of little interest because even with regards to the fight against Capitalism, Christianity is totally subversive; there will be no blood! I mean the man died! He bled! It is done.

In response to The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Žižek

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