The protocols of the learned Lacanian of Slovitzia: Part one

Abstract

Although increasingly controversial, Slavoj Žižek remains a superstar public intellectual in the West associated with the political Radical Left. Most of the Western media who promote him have no idea that in his native Slovenia he is a principle figure of the neoliberal party that ruled for most of Slovenia's era independence and committed the notorious "electronic ethnic cleansing" and that he is perceived as a reactionary. This article examines Žižek's work closely to unmask what is revealed as a mere veil of socialist and Communist allegiances. Žižek's techniques of deception and indirection are shown to derive from the inaugural text of right wing pseudo-socialism, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The conclusion here drawn is that Žižek's project is a continuation of its model's fascist mission-to infiltrate and usurp left wing discourse to advance reactionary politics in progressive and revolutionary disguise-just as its propagandistic rhetorical gambits are the same as those inventively deployed in the famous forgery of the Czarist secret police.