Summary: In the late 90s, theorists, economists & politicians were talking confidently about the “end of history” and the undisputed triumph of liberal "democratic" capitalism. But after 9/11, the GFC and the Arab Spring, the gloss of capitalism may be beginning to fade. If the alternative is Putin's Tsarism or China's authoritarianism, then renovating the idea of communism is something that we should demand, no matter how impossible it seems. Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist & aut
