One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”

I’ve only read a quarter of this so far. I knew Zizek was a crank at times but wasn’t aware of all his chauvinist views lol. Not to mention the antisemitic views of the USSR being worse than Germany

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Well said. Same reason I will never begrudge leftcoms and anarchists for sources like Libcom.org or the Anarchist Library, Those very ideologies that coexist here have to be defined and argued for to the exception of others somewhere_. Theory is sectarian

    • JustAnotherCourier [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      And this is very fair, and thank you for the answer. These are all very fair critiques of Zizek (from my perspective as well) and I wish the article dealt with these issues without ripping and shredding clear context and intent. It's dishonest and I expected a bit more from Counter Punch, tbh.

      In this sense, yes he sucks. Many reasons to not embrace Zizek-thought as a worldview.

    • Pain_Disliker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://lemmygrad.ml/post/511661

      did you know Zizek supported the Iraq war?

      did you know he is a Heidegger guy?

      did you know he pioneered the Infrared "fuck off pmc" response to organizing?

      did you know he thinks immigrants are "aggressive young people"?