• davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      Gabriel Rockhill: 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!”

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        A position further solidified by how often he plagiarizes himself. Literally if you’ve read one Zizek book, you’ve read parts of others already.