It's a pretty short opinion piece but here's the last paragraph that sums up Zizek's thoughts.

The big question that haunts us is of course: can you abolish market freedom without abolishing political freedom? You certainly can abolish political freedom without abolishing market freedom — China proved it. Yet the final result of its rule seems to be to provide a new form of authoritarian capitalism which will replace liberal capitalism. Is China then today the biggest threat to a genuine democratic emancipation? Should China therefore be the enemy of the left?

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Always the same question for Zizek on AES: why in the world should we expect handing everyone the freedom to wreck as much as possible an avenue for fixing anything? Either we're all really fucked up because the Puritanical psychology annihilated social relations over the last 150 years as a force of late Capitalist imperialism and need some specific force to bring us back, or we aren't. People aren't going to just magically get over being reactionaries and revisionists just because capitalism is deeply unsustainable.