Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
&ldquo;A return to Marx may be acceptable today ... But a repetition of Lenin? ... Perhaps Žižek&rsquo;s return to Lenin is merely tactical, figurative even. He can&rsquo;t be serious, can he? ... Žižek claims that Lenin&rsquo;s act, &lsquo;his choice&rsquo;, continues to speak to those of us on the left today. Faced with our current conceptual deadlock, we must have the courage, the nerve, to risk isolation, self-annihilation even, in order to ofeer a real alternative to the false oppositions recuperated by and churned out for our consumption by the image industry of late capitalism ... The postmodernists and liberal multiculturalists, today&rsquo;s Bernsteins and Kautskys—our contemporary Plekhanovs and Martovs, beware!&rdquo;—Bad Subjects