Žižek - Whose Servant is a Master?
Added 2023-03-18 07:51:19 +0000 UTC*Audio begins 20 seconds in!* Žižek's lecture from The Master/s conference (September 2022), organized by the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana.
"Friedrich the Great defined himself (the king) as “the first servant of State”, and this is how, from the early Enlightenment onwards, a master justifies his rule: he is in reality the greatest servant, the servant of all his subjects/servants. As expected, this false humility can justify the most brutal terror – Stalin fully belongs to this space. But there are different modalities of this position of “serving the servants”, from technocracy and religious fundamentalism to obscene master-clown, or even, as Mao Ze Dong can be characterized, to a “Lord of Misrule”, a master who periodically organizes rebellions against his own rule."
