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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I know he's not marxist but perhaps Žižek?

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pleiades@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

idk maybe how he constantly says right wing shit?

[–] pleiades@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

dude chill, i was asking because i don't know anything about him

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Read the article above. He's very anti-immigrant, and anti-communist.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just listened to him for five minutes and felt he was wasting my time. I like people who pick a topic and then follow through with it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I've seen/heard him say interesting and thought-provoking things.

But yeah, most of the time it seems like he just likes hearing himself speak.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Zizek is more of a Hegelian by his own admission, and is essentially an "imperialist from the left."

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago