The Legacy of the French Revolution w/ Slavoj Zizek on Bastille Day | Jacobin Show

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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek joins The Jacobin Show on Bastille Day to discuss why the French Revolution still matters and how the Left today can embrace the the radical spirit of the Enlightenment.

The Jacobin Show airs every Wednesday at 6 PM ET and offers a socialist perspective on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. The hosts are Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod.

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00:00 Happy Bastille Day!
4:44 Picnics Are Radical, Not Racist
13:50 C.R.L. James's Radical Universalism
28:53 Slavoj Zizek on the Legacy of the French Revolution
1:26:18 Rutger's University Labor Battle

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