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

    no matter how bad Zizek’s takes get, I can’t really get mad at him, because he introduced me to a whole galaxy of leftist thought

    this is a shitty take though. Are you really saying if Zizek came out tomorrow and said something unforgivable like "nonwhites are subhuman" or did something unforgivable like, I don't know, support NATO imperialism (something he has actively done for over 2 decades) you couldn't get mad at him because you're sentimental about what he introduced you to? Think about the implications of that. We are historical materialists, not hero worshipers. No heroes. If someone becomes reactionary (or, in Zizek's case, was reactionary all along), they go into the dustbin of history.