Call to Protest: Slavoj Žižek urges renewed resistance

Slavoj Žižek is regarded as one of the ideological pioneers of the Occupy movement, but he says its demands don't go far enough. Žižek sees no future for capitalism and is calling for a radical break with the past in favor of a new social order.

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• Slavoj Žižek
• zizek
• OWS
• occupy
• movement
• Arab
• Spring
• capitalism
• communism

[MarmaladeINFP]

The interviewer is very annoying. She comes off as smug or smarmy or something. She constantly has this weird smirk on her face. It's obvious that she doesn't take seriously Zizek or what he says. And, in the last minute of the video, she looks like she is trying to hold back irritation.

[shulaces]

this tv show is shit; i wonder if slavoj would have done this interview if he had seen the result :X

[MyMILANOV]

j hope dis interview vill see a lot of people!!!...viva la REVOLOCION

[wimdejonge]

@ButherLi55ett - I would like to see a source to back up that statement.

Žižek identified a pact between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Army as a non-favourable outcome in his interview with Charlie Rose of PBS October last year. On previous occasions he emphasised the need for a strong Left to oppose Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, like it should be in the West as opposition for (Neo-)Liberal groups, witness his Al Jazeera interview Februari 2011.

[ButherLi55ett]

I'm pretty sure 6-12 months ago he was characterizing the MB in very different terms, which were quite favourable indeed. Now they are suddenly all Islamicists? He needs to make up his fucking mind. Also is he really part of any movement, as far as I am aware he is not in any organisation and does not do any work within the working class. A lot of the time it comes across as if he's just having an over intellectual wank.

[bodnarism]

the introductory extract frames him like an idiot.

[TheRacistsMustDie]

A progressive thinker? Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I find that that a questionable label. I have the same issue with calling OWS "postmodern" b.t.w., it evokes the wrong associations @AndrewMann552 , but without that single word I totally agree.

[Ollie9402]

@MarmaladeINFP I wouldn't read too much into it. It's just not that good a show I think. The music and the language sound dramatic in a kind of clichéd way, and the interviewer thinks she has to act like an interviewer.

[AndrewMann552]

Wise words from Zizek but the report exaggerates his role in OWS, OWS is basically just a postmodern movement with no ideas or alternatives forming, it's more of a venting mechanism. Sadly, many of those participating don't even know who Zizek is or even give a shit and believe that the US will go back to it what "it was before."

[NisargaYoga]

Unless you start with yourself, Isaac, your efforts to change society will give you nothing. The problem at the heart of your angst is you, yourself.