Slavoj Zizek is an idiot who is commonly discussed in Post-Modern philosophy courses. He’s gained the acceptance of the international Left and, therefore, I am forced to sit amongst confused souls who take him seriously. I’m speaking solely of his… ehem… “philosophical and psychological “thought”" and, until a few minutes ago, I was unaware of his politics.

Here are some excerpts from a review of his work:

1. In Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, Zizek claims, “Better the worst Stalinist terror than the most liberal capitalist democracy”
2. In The Fragile Absolute, he writes that “the way to fight ethnic hatred effectively is not through its immediate counterpart, ethnic tolerance; on the contrary, what we need is even more hatred, but proper political hatred”
3. In Defense of Lost Causes… Zizek remarks that “Heidegger is ‘great’ not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement,” and that “crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough, that his violence was not ‘essential’ enough”
4. the whole premise of Violence, as of Zizek’s recent work in general, is that resistance to the liberal-democratic order is so urgent that it justifies any degree of violence. “Everything is to be endorsed here,” he writes in Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, “up to and including religious ‘fanaticism.’”

The review is here to read if anyone feels so inclined.