Slavoj Zizek

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American

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journalist

literary critic

is a dangerous thinker who, the louder he applauds violence and terror—especially the terror of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the more indulgently he is received by the academic left.

The curious thing about the zizek phenomenon is that the louder he applauds violence and terror—especially the terror of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, whose "lost causes" zizek takes up in another new book, In Defense of Lost Causes—the more indulgently he is received by the academic left, which has elevated him into a celebrity and the center of a cult.

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