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

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    He also said in his preface of "on practice and on contradiction" and on how China is not communist but a Confucian society (aka progressive conservative). Which sounds like a gotcha moment, but if you read a pre-PRC leftist there was literally a text called Marx visiting Confucius which tries to syncretize Chinese thoughts with Marxian thinking

    Also Alain Badiou is the only real Maoist, for reasons