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

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I read the whole thing. Holy shit Zizek is awful. Possibly even a CIA asset. The fact that he's supported NATO since their bombing of Yugoslavia, and directly supported the privatization of his country is telling. I always thought his philosophy was a bit zany and weird for being grounded in Lacan, but it's so much worse.