Slavoj Zizek's views

[MustCrushCapitalism]

I've always liked a lot of Zizek's stuff, but for some reason I've never gotten this. He's definitely some type of Marxist and I'm pretty sure he likes Lenin. Trotskyist or ML I'm thinking?

Anyone know Zizek's specific tendency?

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

He follows Left Hegelianism over anything else and his basic ideology is "Make fucking destroy."

[Brosip Tito]

He's a Marxist-Lacanian.

Not a particular fan of Stalin.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Hipster communism.

[Railyon]

Is there some kind of trolling like Zizek 101 intro to Zizek's ideas available in paper form?

[x359594]

Is there some kind of trolling like Zizek 101 intro to Zizek's ideas available in paper form?

Zizek's one popular book is First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Very readable with a low quotient of Lacanian jargon.

[Deicide]

He's influenced by Marxism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Hegelianism. He utilizes these schools of thought for a multi-disciplinary approach to studying society.

He believes the 20th century Communist experiment was a monstrous catastrophe. As any sane person would.

[the zizekian]

I've always liked a lot of Zizek's stuff, but for some reason I've never gotten this. He's definitely some type of Marxist and I'm pretty sure he likes Lenin. Trotskyist or ML I'm thinking?

Anyone know Zizek's specific tendency?

Zizek is a dialectician so is tendency is to have no tendency.

[ed miliband]

Hipster communism.

like as far from that as is possible

beyond all the "terror" stuff he's essentially a radical social-democrat

[the zizekian]

like as far from that as is possible

beyond all the "terror" stuff he's essentially a radical social-democrat

For Zizek, there is no beyond of terror: terror is the alpha and the omega.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

like as far from that as is possible

beyond all the "terror" stuff he's essentially a radical social-democrat
My image of 'hipster communism' was pretty much that^ until I just went and actually checked the group set up for it... weird how dogmatic even ironic leftist groups can be.

[scarletghoul]

he's an academic and philosopher. far as i know his only real political activity was as a liberal capitalist advocate during the breakup of yugoslavia loool

[Ostrinski]

He's not an ML or Trot. He carries around pictures of Stalin and hangs them in his house for fun. He's basically just a pundit and/or troll.

[the zizekian]

He's not an ML or Trot. He carries around pictures of Stalin and hangs them in his house for fun. He's basically just a pundit and/or troll.

Stalin = serious

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

He's not an ML or Trot. He carries around pictures of Stalin and hangs them in his house for fun. He's basically just a pundit and/or troll.

I swear to God that man is just a troll with an intellectual mind. :)

[the zizekian]

I swear to God that man is just a troll with an intellectual mind. :)

A troll sees trolls everywhere.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

A troll sees trolls everywhere.

Lol. It's just the Stalin thing and the way he argues that makes me suspicious.

[the zizekian]

Only Zizek's terror can cure those powerless enough to be obsessed by trolls.

[Armchair War Criminal]

Is there some kind of trolling like Zizek 101 intro to Zizek's ideas available in paper form?

Zizek's Ontology by Adrian Johnston is the best existing and most explicit summary of his serious work (or, for all I know, will be until Less Than Nothing comes out.) It's entirely apolitical, but on the political side Zizek's role (a perfectly legitimate one) is entirely that of a provacateur. His positive doctrines are in philosophy of mind.

[the zizekian]

I've always liked a lot of Zizek's stuff, but for some reason I've never gotten this. He's definitely some type of Marxist and I'm pretty sure he likes Lenin. Trotskyist or ML I'm thinking?

Anyone know Zizek's specific tendency?

Zizek reveres Lenin because he dared, against all the prevalent tendencies of his time, to reinvent Marxism in a totally inappropriate social, economical and political context.