Slavoj Žižek: ‘Joe Biden Is Long-Term the Same Catastrophe as Trump’
www.irishtimes.com -The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher and self-described “radical leftist” and “communist in a qualified sense,” currently a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. — Wikipedia
The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints
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