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Zizek calls himself a leftist and of course then says a bunch of horrific liberal bullshit. What a joke of a man.

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[–] davel@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Radical recuperator.

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!”

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Filing Noam Chomsky under this umbrella

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Noam "Epstein associate" Chomsky

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

The thing that is most telling about Chomsky is that while his criticisms of US foreign policy in particular are spot on, he never actually advocates for any alternative except some vague notion of "anarchism", which I don't think he has ever explained how it would come to fruition. All the while being fervently anti-communist.

Parenti was right about that clown parenti

[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

imo Noam Chomsky doesn't really fit into it anymore bcs ever since he said that Ukraine is a proxy war and that it would be better to actually have a peaceful resolution to the conflict the libs have completely despised him

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

He founded JVP and dunked on Sapir Whorf tho.