Or did he become reactionary only recently?
Descartes was responsible for modern feminism because ‘cogito ergo sum’ is genderless?
Also that’s a lot of words just to say he believes ‘West is best’
Also people in the global South are probably disgusted by a united Europe because historically, didn’t European countries usually cooperate to divide up nations in the global South amongst themselves?
what an absolute lunatic. What exactly his positing “Latino-americanism” is if it isn’t a branch of western civilization? Even china is best understood in most contexts as a westernized country, but even in their intellectual inheritance, Becoming a scholar in China was to study lengthy debates preserved from centuries ago. the arguments of the losing side were preserved, and could even be adopted as policy centuries later. In Europe, there is no trustworthy extant description of many historically important groups beliefs. Not that this couldn’t happen in China, they could write just as much slander, but consider The discourse on Salt and Steel stayed a touchstone for millenium or thatFan Zhen’s 5th century argument for atheism survives despite imperial displeasure and mandatory criticism in 75 pamphlets. There is great intellectual animosity between Buddhism and Taoism, yet both coexisted and survive to the present day. The west having a unique ability to self criticize when China transformed from an absolutist monarchy with a cult to the divine emporter to a communist dictatorship in less than 4 decades is absurd. even if one lacked any specific knowledge of China whatsoever, a serious person still wouldn’t make a claim that europe was uniquely capable of self criticism. if such a though occurred to them, they would use their power of self-criticism to consider “Self-criticism ought to be an ability inherent to all cultures, it must only be my own ignorance that I feel there is some disparity.”
he never could lmao
euros upon murdering whole swathes of cultures and seeing the world for 500 years: see, everyone agrees with our takes, where is your newton huh, enslaved people, doing silly wars against invaders instead of profiting from colonial labor like civilized people
because he is a curiosity display for western publishing house
So Eurocentric he turned blue like a fucking meme.
Zizek, why are you doing this to me? I loved The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, at least.
Brando Milanovic went from Lib to Anti-zionist and anti imperialist
Zizek went from ‘‘leftist’’ to nationalist socialist
The Balkan is just a gift that keeps on giving
The West is a desert of socialist understanding. People grasp onto whatever seems kind of left and say, “hey look at this that seems pretty good he’s my guy now” and they won’t leave it behind for years and years until either actually reading theory or learning something too upsetting about the person.
If you ask a self-described American leftist to name 5 living socialist public figures they admire or appreciate they would usually struggle at the task.
Zizek? The hot dog guy?
Zizek, like Chomsky, is popular precisely because he helps metabolize radical politics into a form that the bourgeois hegemon likes. They allow him to gain mainstream appeal because he is no threat.
not a Chomsky fan, but Chomsky is way better than Zizek. Chomsky at least puts himself in real world struggles. Chomsky is a great source of US Imperialist crimes and the struggle of Palestine. Zizek was all about being an edgy academic. I disliked Zizek for a long time, and hated him when Fidel died. Zizek appeared on RT and said Fidel should be forgotten from history and Cuba accomplished nothing.
Zizek appeared on RT and said Fidel should be forgotten from history and Cuba accomplished nothing.
LOL why does he become a smurf at the end of the clip?!
Parenti gets to be yellow, Zizek gets to be blue
Remember when he “debated” Jordan Peterson and JP spent the whole time googling the communist manifesto while zizek was being angry about cancel culture or, something?
He’s always been a radlib pseud, but he definitely has gotten worse since 2020/2022
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “we all eat out of the trash can” is a great turn of phrase and clearly outlines the problem with the liberal ideal of “non-ideology.” But clever quips do not a Marxist intellectual make.
What does he say? I can’t be bothered to use tiktok.
On Zizek as a whole, I distinctly remember somebody asking him something about Kosovo, when there were talks that it was gonna be partitioned once and for all. He says that he supports it, in that Kosovo gives Serbia the obviously serbian parts, which is common sense. But then, for a guy living in the balkans, he says something unimaginably stupid and pretty much racist. He thinks that kosovo should get a part of Sandzak (which is a province of Serbia containing a majority Bosniak population), as if he cannot imagine that maybe Bosniaks are satisfied with the way things are right now, as opposed to living in a country where their language (and consequently the language of the majority of South Slavs) is actively being suppressed. As if that would be good thing simply pertaining to the fact that they share a religion with the Albanians of kosovo. Also the notion that Serbia should give something up to make it fair, as if simply recognizing the territory which was illegally taken from it isn’t enough. If this is how informed he is on the region he hails from, you can imagine the credibility of his opinions in regards to foreign policy in general.
