Zizek calls himself a leftist and of course then says a bunch of horrific liberal bullshit. What a joke of a man.

  • davel [he/him]
    hexbear
    63
    3 months ago

    Radical recuperator.

    This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”

      • sexywheat [none/use name]
        hexbear
        42
        3 months ago

        The thing that is most telling about Chomsky is that while his criticisms of US foreign policy in particular are spot on, he never actually advocates for any alternative except some vague notion of "anarchism", which I don't think he has ever explained how it would come to fruition. All the while being fervently anti-communist.

        Parenti was right about that clown parenti

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          hexbear
          9
          3 months ago

          And note that when he peeked out of his controlled opposition even for a two seconds with not even very hot takes, liberals immediatelly cancelled him.

          His entire 70 year career as a good acceptable adult responsible palatable leftist still ended with him lumped together with tankies by libs.

      • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]
        hexbear
        18
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        imo Noam Chomsky doesn't really fit into it anymore bcs ever since he said that Ukraine is a proxy war and that it would be better to actually have a peaceful resolution to the conflict the libs have completely despised him