Slavoj Dui Zhuek: Cultural Capitalism

Slavoj Žižek talks about how cultural capitalism is doing nothing to improve the lives of those involved in it. Marx would agree with what Žižek had to say. The point that Žižek brings up about the child who need the twenty dollar chelf lip surgery to improve his life will only improve it slightly. They will still live in a world where they cannot normally afford an inexpensive surgery. This is similar to the slave reference. We are the slaves who are treated well enough that will do not recognize the injustice in our life. Marx would agree. He believed that once we realized that we were that slaves, we to rise up and create a communist society.

Žižek referenced the red scare when communism was thought evil. The reason it fail was because