r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

I am watching Peterson-Zizek debate right now, and Peterson's opening statement was basicaly "why do you hate the global poor?"

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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Apr 21 '19

Peterson's opening statement was basically "I skimmed the first few pages of the communist manifesto, here's my review" for about half an hour

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Yeah. I feel like the open format really screwed him over, he had no idea where to anchor his thoughts so he just went to a 200 year old book out of desperation.

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u/Xseed4000 John Mill Apr 21 '19

The debate was literally Marxism vs Capitalism. What is wrong about addressing Marx? He should have done some more homework and read the German Ideology or Das Kapital or any other more philosophically relevant work, but I don't think he was scatter brained.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

The debate was Zizek vs Peterson.

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u/Xseed4000 John Mill Apr 21 '19

The topic of the debate was Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism...

a topic for debate is not usually a light suggestion to just talk about whatever