On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions Series): Slavoj Zizek presents Mao torrent

Category: History, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Ccp China Communist China Culture Failure Famine Great Leap Forward Mao PRC

Written by Mao Zedong, Slavoj Zizek
Read by Matt Bates
Format: MP3

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek’s firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao’s thought in the revolutionary canon.