Yeah he is but I think that’s part of the philosophy? I always took his philosophy as a “destroy everything and see what remains” type of deal. I think he takes the owl of Minerva metaphor from Hegel very seriously
He was an anti-communist "student protestor" type in Yugoslavia against Tito and in support of color revolution type stuff. Without looking into it much more he could easily have actual left-wing beliefs but that doesn't make him not an idealist liberal who doesn't care about the difficulty of actually achieving anything left-wing.
I like Zizek a lot, he's not only a funny guy but he has imo written some genuinely must read leftist texts like Revolution at the Gates. But holy FUCK does he have the worst geopolitical takes I've ever seen lmao. I'll stick to his philosophy lectures and watching him talk about movies, thanks
zizek is a liberal. he does marxist philosophy, very different spheres
he was the candidate for the Slovenian Liberal party once lmao
my completely uninformed take on zizek that is based 100% on osmosis and vibes is he wrote some decent shit in the 80s and has been riding off that success ever since.
One day I intend to getting around to checking him out more thoroughly but theres already a lot of other stuff that I have on my list I want to get through first.
he's basically the personification of all stupidpol redditors but he's funny so people accept it
Its a great deal for them, they just leave a box of half eaten chicken wings on his doorstep every once in a while
They did it once and now he just assumes every time he finds half a calzone in the dumpster behind his apartment building that they left it for him
Tonight... schniff.. we are eating well from the trash-can of... schniff... ideology :zizek-joy:
I feel like we're just repeating 1910 and there are leftists saying that a great alliance if the capitalist powers will prevent war while Lenin turns in his glass box.
Yeah, and his solutions to political problems are lacking as well. He said we need a return to "War Communism" to solve the pandemic. What does tha mean? He says in his first pandemic book
"It should also seek cooperation with other states. As in a military campaign, information should be shared and plans fully coordinated. This is all I mean by the “Communism” needed today, or, as Will Hutton put it: Now, one form of unregulated, free-market globalization with its propensity for crises and pandemics is certainly dying. But another form that recognizes interdependence and the primacy of evidence-based collective action is being born."
This is just repeating what the WHO chief said, perhaps with the provocative twist of calling it Communism.
even though empirical evidence do not support this view. (Other Marxist biologists like Stephen Jay Gould have advocated much more radical views e.g. punctuated equilibrium)
This is blowing my mind right now, do you have any recommended (layman) reading on this?
He was a science popularizer, so his own writing is a place to start! https://books.google.com/books?id=504iVZyopJ8C&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false
He also wrote a great takedown of (historically racist) metricizing of demographics and intelligence called The Mismeasure of Man. Newer copies shat on Charles Murray.
