https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1502591584067481604
Catching up on Zizek articles
radlib who can't read Marx but loves the guy who criticizes art and culture...folks this is why we need to get the Game Theory youtuber to read Das Kapital
and saw earlier this month he wrote those who blame Russia's invasion of Ukraine on NATO and the West are "not really leftists" and compared them to Hitler apologists lmao
Zizek: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-unequal-treatment-of-refugees-exposed-by-ukraine-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-03
And now some who call themselves leftists (I wouldn’t) are blaming the West for the fact that US President Joe Biden was right about Putin’s intentions. The argument is well-known: NATO was slowly encircling Russia, fomenting color revolutions in its near-abroad, and ignoring the reasonable fears of a country that had been attacked from the West in the last century.
There is, of course, an element of truth here. But saying only this is equivalent to justifying Hitler by blaming the unjust Treaty of Versailles. Worse, it concedes that big powers have the right to spheres of influence, to which all others must submit for the sake of global stability. Putin’s assumption that international relations is a contest of great powers is reflected in his repeated claim that he had no choice but to intervene militarily in Ukraine.
Is that true? Is the problem really Ukrainian fascism? The question is better directed at Putin’s Russia. Putin’s intellectual lodestar is...
Lol fuck off no one cares about philosophy, idealist. Russia is clearly not the party doing finance imperialism to privatize farmland and keep people jobless and poor. That's the entire purpose of the IMF/World Bank (radlibs talk about geopolitics like NATO because idealists are only concerned with superstructure, not the material base)
Zizek attempts to be speaking dialectically but he's just a lazy careerist contrarian, this is why we need a commitment to historical materialism, you end up being on the level of Vaush.
coincidentally he wrote for this neoliberal website with a nerdy FIght Club name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Syndicate
Project Syndicate, which Ezra Klein described as "the world's smartest op-ed page,"
the least amount of soul
received grants from the Open Society Foundations, The Politiken Foundation in Denmark, Die Zeit, ZEIT-Stiftung, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Zizek drew attention away from finance imperialists on a website funded by the exact people who want to turn Ukraine in a nation who doesn't own their own farmland? PMC synthetic leftist hackfraud lol
"support" Putin in the sense that going against America's interests is great and good. But there is absolutely no reason to treat this like some of us do with China, with uncritical support of him. That is my issue. The capitalist government in Russia has shown no inclination it will not backstab and destroy socialists movements just like America does if given the chance. treating him as anything except a opportunist who is currently doing something that conveniently hinders someone even worse would be disingenous
let them fight
What I am saying is that I'd rather Russia win than America win.
me too, I just don't trust Putin (or Russia's oligarchy)
I trust the Russian oligarchy less to be honest. Anyone who is under the delusion that anyone would be better off under some sort of Russian hegemony needs to get their head on straight. These are the people who overthrew the USSR and benefited from the worst peacetime collapse in human history. As far as I am concerned they are all Fascists unless someone can prove it otherwise to me.