Bayarea415 was a big fan of him, and so am I. Žižek is an incredibly original thinker, easily top 100 of this century. Their documentaries Pervert’s Guide on Cinema/Ideology and Dreamworlds series are some of my favourite videos, and today I watched Žižek’s competition debate with Jordan Peterson, where the latter looked like a curious, heartbroken old man.
Zizek is trash imo, he appeals to faux-college-champaigne-socialists who value media criticism more than materialist analyses of capitalism and imperialism in the modern day.
He also is socially reactionary, worked to overthrow Yugoslavia, and goes against AES every chance he gets.
Its kind of a testament to the stupidity of most of the western left that they think this guy is some paragon of socialist thought, and not some quirky reactionary who makes a coherent statement 10% of the time.
Slavoj Zizek
- “Immigration has to be restricted to prevent the rise of Fascism.”
- Helped work to overthrow Yugoslavia.
- He’s anti-USSR, anti bolivarian revolution, supported the coups in Ukraine and Libya
- Thinks socialism died a long time ago in Cuba, that everyone lives there because of a misguided devotion to Castro, and thinks the bolivarian revolution will soon fail.
- Defines Marxism: “Marx wanted a return to traditional values.”
- Comes out in favor of NATO against Russia, in the 2022 Ukraine conflict.
- Argues for a stronger NATO to fight against Russia and for Ukraine.
- More here
Uh oh. This looks like a mini masterlist similar to dessalines’ on Chomsky, time to read. Thanks for this.
Do you by any chance have a link to dessalines’ take on chmomksy?
Copying dessalines’ masterlist
Noam Chomsky
- Is Chomsky right about Marxist-Leninists being evil?
- Roderic Day - On Chomsky
- Awful chomsky takes.
- Gowans - The US has produced very few anti-imperialists: Chomsky isn’t among them.
- “My response to the end of Soviet tyranny was similar to my reaction to the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini. In all cases, it is a victory for the human spirit. It should have been particularly welcome to socialists, since a great enemy of socialism had at last collapsed”
- https://archive.li/YVNk3
- https://libcom.org/history/john-deutch-chomskys-friend-pentagon-cia
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-chomsky-felt-guilty-most-of-time-war-research-and-linguistics-at-mit/
- https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime-cambodia
- https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/13cf816e-8e40-41c8-bb76-d453a3261d8b
- Endorsed Biden in the 2020 election, even after Tara Reide’s rape allegations. 2
Thank you!
