but hes right about a lot of things. kind of sad that this 72 year old is one of the most influential intellectual on the left today
edit: I think this post was taken in the wrong way. You should read Zizek, he does have good ideas. I call him a "grifter" not to shut down his ideas, but rather as an acknowledgement of his limitations.
Anyone insisting that socialists never abandon their authenticity for the sake of attention is insisting that we lose in the Information Age. Authenticity is just another brand because the way we judge authenticity is through brand relations. It would literally be difficult to match the level of depravity and deception of reputation manipulation that capitalists do, and yet we insist on our figureheads being “authentic” as if they were breadtubers we were trying to consume