People who claim to have gone from a “Marxist”(which I doubt they ever had a real understanding of) to anarchist don’t make any sense. Do these people think ignoring the national and global level of the problem will better address it? Do they think the oligarchy won’t equally quell your pitiful attempt at anarchism with tanks and artillery the same as any other attempt to break free of the system?
How could anyone think anarchism could address climate change more effectively when it’s incapable of removing the capitalist system from power as we see throughout history?
Zizek really did wrong getting behind NATO in this Ukraine conflict, and I still believe it is the same reason why many scholars and voices who used to speak up, they all became scared seeing the Cold War-esque sentiment and gave up by protecting their university lecturer careers. He has a lot of great observations that explain most things easily.
I think Zizek’s playing the same game he’s always been playing. I’ve read a lot of his work and can appreciate his positions on the ideological subject; at the same time, he’s an anti materialist. He criticizes the old communist world without addressing the material details of the before and after. He speaks in strictly ideological framing and uses the ideological framing of movies and the like the back him up. He reduced riots to people being made into consumers and not being allowed to consume.
I honestly didn’t know Zizek’s take on the Ukraine war until someone else mentioned it, but it’s what I could have guessed considering his earlier perspectives.