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if not for the Marshall Plan, the Philippines would have been number one in Asia then.

pity a nation who needs heroes to fight and die for the rights and freedom of the Filipinos. from Lapu-Lapu to Jose Rizal, to Andres Bonifacio, to Pastor Mesina, to Evelio Javier, to Edgar Jopson, to Lean Alejandro, etc., heroes have fought and died for their fellow Filipinos.

there will be hundreds of Filipinos who will fight and die for the rights and freedom of the Filipino, but the social injustice shall continue until the Filipino himself learns to fight and die for his own rights and freedom and not wait for another hero to fight his battle.

Zizek, as you know, claims, like his mentor Lacan, to be a connoisseur and competent judge of just about everything under the sun. But I can assure you that, beyond the sphere of random interpretative “bright ideas” about the possible unconscious undercurrents of Hollywood movies (where, I suppose, just about “anything goes” in the way of theoretical speculation), pretty much everything he has written is demonstrably inaccurate or untenable. His extensive writing on German Idealism, for example, largely consists of warmed-over synopses of the work of more competent and serious German scholars in the field, which he removes from the reach of plagiarism charges by inflicting on the basic ideas he has stolen a few arbitrary exaggerations or absurd inversions that serve indeed to make the interpretations of Kant or Hegel “his” but also serve to make them utter rubbish that has nothing any longer to do with Kant or Hegel at all.

That really is what you need to understand about Zizek. He stands at the extreme end point of a tradition that has developed particularly in France over the past fifty years in which the point in philosophical and theoretical writing became less and less to say things that were TRUE and more and more to say things that were more BREATHTAKING and AMAZING, more UNHEARD-OF, than whatever the guy publishing just before you had published. Whatever he says about, say, Hegel is dictated primarily, if not exclusively, by this: it has to be something that no one ever even THOUGHT of saying before him (that Hegel’s philosophical method was not dialectical, for example, or that he was a materialist who believed that the mind had no role in forming reality). There are, of course, a huge number of such things that “no one ever thought of saying about Hegel before” that Zizek can fill his books up with. But the reason, in most cases, for no one ever thinking of them is that they are patently entirely wrong.

More relevant to your concerns is the sad fact that the very same principle applies to the seemingly anachronistically robust and militant political ideas that Zizek subscribes to and propounds. If you’d followed Zizek and the wider political-theoretical scene for twenty or thirty years as I have, you’d soon recognize why Zizek has been proclaiming, for about ten years now, what appear to be good old-fashioned Leninist principles. The fact is that doing something so crashingly “old-fashioned” and “unoriginal” was the only way he could hold on to the only thing that matters to him: originality at any cost. Every form of departure from and “sublimation” of Marxism and of the socialist revolutionary tradition in general had been tried by someone, in France or elsewhere, in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, and in the early 90’s the only thing that no one expected from a leading, French-trained theorist was for him to start going on about proletarian revolution again. So that’s what Zizek did. For no other reason, I am sure, than because he knew it would confound expectations and draw the spotlight of intellectual fame and notoriety on to him once again.

It really does anger me to see that this profoundly cynical move on his part really has won him the interest and support of people of political good will like yourself. That is why I urge you to think again.

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