Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) 'Nobody can rule innocently,' as Saint-Just… — Daily Philosophers — TG.ME

Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) 'Nobody can rule innocently,' as Saint-Just puts it. And in totalitarianism, the Party becomes again the very subject who, being the immediate embodiment of the People can rule innocently. It is not by accident that the real-socialist countries call themselves ' people's democracies.' — The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. Wikipedia article Wikiquote