BA:
>And as far as I could see, he said that the current dominant ideological
marriage between capitalism and democracy is reaching a divorce...
JG:
Yes, perhaps I did not parse Zizek's meaning deftly enough, but why single out China as the paradigmatic example of this ideological marriage being exposed for the unholy union it is? Of course it is true in its own way, but it's not very politically intelligent to make the PRC the whipping boy.