No.945
What do ya'll comrades think of this dude?
No.946
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/11/zize-n12.htmlEven though it's a Trot source it's still correct, random asides about "Marxism-Leninism" aside.
No.947
>>946I was loomking for something like this a few days ago. Thanks
No.998
Has he said anything of value or real interest?
No.1004
Zizek is a contrarian who will say anything outrageous to be in the spotlight.
He's shilled for Leninism, revisionism, orthodox Marxism, liberalism, capitalism, socialism, anarchism.
The guy is either some sort of mentally ill multiple personality fuckhead, or he's just your common opportunist intellectual. I'm not quite sure which to be honest.
No.1153
>>1004That's a reductive way of looking at it.
I don't know much about this man, but depending on what post of mine you read on any forum you might think I was shilling for a particular ideology simply because I may be happening to talk about their particular merits.
I've been (guilty?) of talking glowingly about the efficiency of free market economies at distributing resources in one thread, while opining about the cost in human suffering in another.
No.1158
>>1004tbh, he really likes hegel and wants to write about hegel, but his managment makes him write pop culture stuff.
Tbh i like him for his work on cultural theory. But I really dont get you who say he shills for stuff what he usually says quite often is that communism of 20 th century has been screwed up and we need to reinvent it according to the needs of 21st century. he might be revisionist in that kind of sense but i see nothing wrong with him.
No.1159
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and a parody on him
No.1200
>>1158
>he usually says quite often is that communism of 20 th century has been screwed up and we need to reinvent it according to the needs of 21st centuryHow does he propose it be reinvented?
No.1208
>>1200That's the kind of question no one person is capable of answering succinctly, seeing as there might not be an answer that will ever be satisfying.
We have to be willing to make incredible mistakes, in order to have models for how future mistakes could be less incredibly bad and so on.
No.1211
>>1208So what is the thing we should try doing differently, for starters, according to Zizek?
No.1214
Talked about him with a friend of mine that is doing a PhD in philosophy. Basically he thinks he's much less interested in politics than most people think. If he could he'd be discussing theory 24/7.
No.1216
>>1211well for starters left needs a proper ideology and system to get behind. because democracy in its very core is designed to prevend system chsnge.
He made a very good point about the OWS movement. The left there is not traditional proletariat but the salaried burgeoise who is afraid to lose their privileges due to financal turmoils. so the raised voice against the system. But what was missing was a common line, a plan what to do after ows ends. because very few oranizations of political struggle actually formed. it was more of a notion
politicians are corrupt, we just want them to nknow e dont aprove of that corruption so they have to change, instead of taking a hard- line against the system itself which allows for, propagates such corruption and acts of greed etc. So his idea for starters is to think, instead of act, to formulate a viable alternative to what we call capitalism.
No.1217
>>1216What's wrong with the common line, ideology, and system given by the Bolsheviks? What about Marxism-Leninism, not social-democracy, needs to be radically defined?
No.1218
>>1217according to zizek it is too utopian, and it has been proven it does not work like it is supposed to. you need to redefine the basic premises. and according to his works, he calls for rwturn not to marx but to hegel in this redefiniton.
Personally i dont agree with that, but i do believe M.L of the 20th century needs to be redefined and tweaked for the new millenia. In an international community so well connected as right now one state socialism is a passe. We need a new international solution to capitalism.
No.1219
>>1216What's funny is the best shortt critique of OWS (made before it even got big) was on RevLeft of all places:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2269900&postcount=13 No.1221
>>1218Your stance doesn't sound so bad. Maybe we can learn something from ISIS about multi-national insurgency.
No.1223
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>>1221my opinion on isis is that there should be an international front of volunteers, just like in spanish civil war. to help PKK fight fescist regime.
+ great PR and groundwork for international insurgence
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No.2389
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No.2417
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He's a funny guy with some good, albeit unoriginal, ideas.
His politics are garbage, though; he's a Eurocommunist. Here he shills for reformism.
No.2427
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Article on Stalinism and "Kremlinology":
http://www.lacan.com/zizstalin.htm
God I forgot how painfully liberal he can be.
No.2429
>>2427
"[In a 1989 compilation of works on Yugoslavia] Žižek asserts that in fact the very radicalization of the Slovene model of pluralism and its spread to other republics would save the part of the Tito legacy that actually has 'world historical significance.' By this he means the legacy of having stood up to Stalin in the Cominform dispute of 1948 and then having renounced the leading role of the party in society."
(Cox, John K. Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties. New York: Routledge. 2005. p. 64.)
No.2436
>>2427
Oh my God, a third of what was written on that essay was included in the Verso Books introduction to Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism. I mean he repeats a lot of stuff in his lectures, but I didn't know that he did that in his writings. I just thought the whole "copy/paste" thing was just a joke.
No.2453
>>1200
So, if Zizek says that we are in deep shit and should reinvent theory BUT doesn't have a ready made model for you he's a shill?
I think it's common sense. Nostaligic communists are cosplayers.
>>946
That article is subpar.
No.2454
>>1214
I'd agree with that. He takes the Hegel -> Marx -> Lenin triad very seriously. He's obsessed with Hegel and reworking him through Lacan so that other theorists may use it for communism.
Here's a book, inspired by Zizek, written by Jodi Dean, who judging by her blog takes Lenin pretty seriously. She aims at reforming the party: it's functions it's structure.
I haven't read this book yet, I just knew this was written.
No.2455
Zizek is pretty hard on anarchos.
No.2457
>>2453
His critiques of what specifically "needs to be reinvented" always come from a rightist standpoint and what little he does advocate amounts to little more than bourgeois reformism.
He’s shit.
No.2458
>>2457
>ziz is rightwinger
>ziz is bourg
>ziz is lib
kek
source?
No.2487
>>1216
>salaried burgeoise
>salaried
>burgeosie
u wot m9
No.2488
>>2487
In today's society most of capital is socially organize via corporations. The shareholders tend to recieve a portion of the profits, and the upper echelons of corporate bureaucracy obtain a salary, but they tend to make obscene amounts of money being that they de facto control the capital.
No.2858
I watched plenty of videos of Zizek out of curiosity and all I can remember is just how incomprehensible he is. He is chaotic. He puts on a good show because he is weird and people like eccentrics, but he mostly do penis jokes and whatever. As a common rule, if you have to say 'fuck' and do dirty jokes to make a point in an 'intelligent' conversation, then there clearly is a problem.
He is smart at selling his image, i got to give him that.
No.2929
All over the place and largely full of bullshit. I don't think he's as much of a philosopher as he is a psuedointellectual entertainer.