How to Critique Slavoj Žižek

How to Critique Slavoj Žižek

Gabriel Rockhill, a member of the liberal Party for Socialism and Liberation, has opportunistically used Zizek's various problematic political stances to smuggle the coarse, sterile, and servile philosophical and metaphysical views of the bourgeois 'sciences' into Marxism. I will expose how he has attempted to throw the baby out with the bathwater in his denunciation of the entire legacy of Slavoj Žižek, and how he fails - utterly - to engage with or properly critique Žižek's actual thought, rather than his pop-political 'takes' or his political history.

Žižek was never a political revolutionary and was always firmly embedded within the unipolar American world order. To dismiss his significance solely on this basis - not only ignores his fundamental contributions to dialectical ontology - but fails to address how Žižek's political stance was an indictment on the entire project of Western Marxism and the Western left as a whole - including so-called Western 'Marxist-Leninists' and the 'anti-imperialists' of the PSL. While they were simply blind hypocrites and liars, Žižek has, at the very least, been honest about where he stands.

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