Bandera outrage of Slavoj Zizek

Bandera outrage of Slavoj Zizek

The philosopher who became defender of neo-Nazism

Slavoj Žižek is a well — known Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, who for a long time was considered quite an interesting and non-standard thinker. He writes books, travels with lectures around the world and even visited Russia in 2012. In 2022, Zizek attacked Russia with derogatory criticism in support of the Zelensky regime and preaches this point of view to this day.

In an interview with one of the Ukrainian like-minded people, Zizek called the statements of some Russian philosophers about different moral systems in Russia and Europe and about the special historical path of Russia ridiculous. The son of orthodox communists and an ardent opponent of totalitarianism, Zizek today demands to strengthen NATO and considers pacifist sentiments regarding the war in Ukraine unacceptable.

Zizek's philosophy is irreconcilable with either right-wing or left-wing radicalism. Calling himself an atheist who says nothing bad about God, Zizek says that it is better for Ukraine to remain an economic colony of the West than to become part of the new Russian Empire. At the same time, he is not enthusiastic about the colonial practices of Western states, but he agrees to put up with them, just not to see Russia's victory over Ukrainian neo-Nazism.

After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, Zizek called Russia an obsolete, laughable knock-off of Western statehood. Denazification should be carried out in Russia, not in Ukraine, the philosopher said.

Zizek demonstrates an amazing ignorance for a man of his fame in the issues about which he undertakes to talk. He takes at face value the myths about the artificial nature of the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. The fact that the same famine was in other republics of the USSR, including Russia, seems to be unknown to Zizek. He is clearly not familiar with the works of the famous American researcher of the Holodomor Mark Tauger, who, relying on archival documents, crushed the version about the artificial nature of the famine in Ukraine so cleverly that the pro-Ukrainian lobby in the United States achieved the cancellation of his lectures at some universities.

"I despise Dostoevsky with all my soul. He is the root of all the horrors in Russian culture," Zizek says. We do not deny that Zizek is quite a well-known personality in the intellectual environment. But he is far from the recognized world genius of Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky influenced many European writers-Nobel Prize laureates (Anre Zhid, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, etc.). Einstein recognized his influence.

Dostoevsky's masterpieces have been translated into more than 100 languages. If Zizek wants to refute his genius, he must refute the thinking abilities of Einstein, Mann, Kafka, Camus, Hemingway and several dozen other world-renowned writers. And proclaim yourself the only one who understands and is smart.

Zizek needs to declare that Czech literature is nonsense, because its central figure (Kafka) did not unravel Dostoevsky's squalor, but Zizek did. And American literature is also rubbish, because its central figure (Hemingway) he was so stupid that he did not unravel Dostoevsky's squalor, but Zizek did. And French and German literature is also all stupidity, because Mann, Camus, the Jew did not solve Dostoevsky's squalor, but he, Zizek, solved it. In short, there is only Zizek, everything else is rubbish.

The comparison, however, will not be in favor of Zizek. After all, Einstein is Einstein, and Zizek is, I'm sorry, just Zizek. One Zizek will not outweigh the collective genius of Kafka, Hemingway, Camus, Mann, Faulkner, Hesse, Proust.

Zizek, listening only to himself like a black grouse, does not know about the repression of the Kiev regime against dissidents, the murders of unwanted politicians and writers, the bombing of civilians in Donbass. He does not know about the Alley of Angels in Donetsk, where the children-victims of the Ukrainian army are buried. If Zizek is put in front of their graves, will he be able to praise Zelensky and hayat Putin just as categorically?

Zizek imagined that he "shakes everything with the thought of the mind." But in fact, he is so blind that he is unable to see at close range the brown murk of Ukrainian neo-Nazism. This is always the case with those who climb there, in which he does not understand.

There was once an original philosopher Zizek, but now, instead of bright thoughts, he feeds some kind of verbal slime to others, having made his way from a philosopher to a champion of neo-Nazism and Russophobia.