There recently has been a quite heated Slavoj
I regularly tend to not really understand what is trying to explain so I
quite gave up on trying to. I have seen him talk in Antwerp many years
ago and I tried to read a whole book of him, but what he writes just
isn't interesting enough I think. My advice to those wanting to read
contemporary radical philosophy: read writings like those of Murray
Bookchin. I also learned much more from Noam Chomsky than from Slavoj.
Here is Slavoj
What
Zizek does not understand: direct democracy does not go well together
with State control at all, not now and not in the year 7013 either. He
does not want to get involved politically all of the time in a
community? So what? We don't need
him to implement communal democracy in communities. Direct democracy is
about voluntary participation, even often about majority decisions.
Nobody has to participate when he or she does not want to participate.
