To select but a few examples, this top global thinker has described 20 th-century communism, and more specifically Stalinism, as “maybe the worst ideological, political, ethical, social (and so on) catastrophe in the history of humanity.” 3 As a matter of fact, he adds for emphasis that “if you measure at some abstract level of suffering, Stalinism was worse than Nazism,” apparently regretting that the Red Army under Stalin defeated the Nazi war machine.
Other ideas were surely strong contenders, and we could add to the list more recent positions. State Department-is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.” 2 The theorist’s best idea-according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. 1 He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist.One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist".
He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
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