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Slavoj Zizek: The global capitalist order is approaching a crisis again, and the vanished radical legacy has to be resuscitated

Thirty-two years after the fall of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, nationalist conservative populism is returning there with a vengeance:…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: The ‘remedies’ that Gates & Soros use to try to offset evils they’ve caused don’t cure the disease, but prolong it

Every authentic Leftist should put on the wall above his bed or table the opening paragraph of Oscar Wilde’s The…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: How Donald Rumsfeld’s catastrophic ‘unknown unknowns’ approach on Iraq can help us deal with Covid crisis

On June 29, Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, and one of…

3 years ago

Slavoj Žižek: The difference between ‘woke’ and a true awakening

The usual liberal-conservative reproach to the so-called woke cancel culture is that it is too radical: Its partisans want to…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: Israelis’ SHAME over what their state is doing in West Bank would be sign of truly belonging to Israel

Sometimes the Slovene government does something that makes me deeply ashamed of being a citizen of Slovenia. One such moment…

3 years ago

Slavoj Žižek: Biden’s words about Putin’s (lack of) soul are a regression to vulgar racism

When Biden was asked if he believes Putin is a killer, he replied, “I do.” He also spoke of how…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek feat. Rammstein: ‘We have to live till we die’ is the Covid-era inspiration we all need

Is there a more sobering lesson than being humiliated and reduced to near-impotence by a virus, a primitive self-reproductive mechanism…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: Trump’s GREATEST TREASON is the betrayal of populism

When the district judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected the US demand to extradite Julian Assange, many Leftist and liberal critics commented…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: We’re at a grim crossroads in this pandemic: one path leads to utter despair, the other to total extinction

We read again and again in our media that we are at the “beginning of the end” of the pandemic:…

3 years ago

Slavoj Zizek: Biden’s win changes nothing and signifies stalemate that could see Trump run again in 2024

‘Democracy Reborn’, the title of a book from 2007 by the historian Garrett Epps, is used in US historiography to…

3 years ago