War communism: obligatory international cooperation

00:56:00 — War communism: obligatory international cooperation

Faced with ecological crisis, pandemics and AI, Žižek argues that voluntaristic international cooperation is no longer sufficient and that a global sovereign is a nightmare. The middle term he reaches for is ‘war communism’ — ironically named — a regime of obligatory, enforced coordination short of world government, calibrated to an emergency state he regards as already arriving. The alternative, he warns, is fortified enclaves surrounded by chaos.