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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.[1] He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”[2] More

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[1]https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/[2]https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/[3]https://www.counterpunch.org/