> Sadly, it is how Marxism becomes religion.
Yeah, sure, whatever. Temple of the Slovene School. Anyway, I tend to find your charge of elitism overwhelmingly ironic. You've made a case for straightforward nose to the grindstone Marxism and charge a bunch of us "Lacanians" (anarchists, marxists, whatever, it's all the same religion, right?) with obscurantism or depraved mysticism, yeah, check, whatever. But this advertising approach to revolution, that's what I find truly offensive. Yeah, like the "average guy" is too stupid to comprehend dialectics so we need to default to something sloganistic. Look, Zizek isn't complicated, he's not even obscure. His work, like that of Hegel, Butler, Lacan, Adorno and Kristeva is as plain as day. You just need to spend more than 3 seconds with the text. So yeah, it isn't COKE IS IT, it demands a little more, not much, a little. So what's the big deal? I have absolute confidence that pretty much anyone can pick up the finer points of negative dialectics after a good look over and some preliminary reading. So why do we need slogans if we're all smart enough to comprehend even the most brilliant? I figure a richly developed argument will go over better than "Prepare to meet thy Marx!"
So, at least we can agree that Zizek isn't any more complicated than Marx or whomever the socialist of the week is.
solidarity, ken