Statement on The Left Forum Closing Plenary 2016 featuring a racist, fascist, queer-bashing, imperial propagandist

After years of being sophistically excused for a series of anti-communist, racist and sexist clichés, historical falsifications and a penchant for peddling a “Marxism” whose essential component is a glorification of authoritarian violence as transcendent guarantor of “authenticity”, Slavoj Žižek has openly and irretrievably shown his true colors through his open support for the U.S.-engineered fascist coup in Ukraine in a series of statements and interventions from January to May 2014, and through his open call for a military handling of the refugee crisis propelled by the proxy war Western imperialist powers and their regional allies have been waging in North Africa and the Middle East (September-November 2015).

It has now become far too apparent that not only is Slavoj Žižek not a man of “the left”, but that he has played a vital role in providing this increasingly vague and depoliticized moniker with an extreme right-wing, pro-imperialist and incipiently fascist content. Inviting him to give the closing plenary at Left Forum would have been an oxymoron, if it were not further proof of the craven, commercially-minded cynicism that has pulverized the historical meaning of a political category.

Konstantinos Asvestas

Gracchus Babeuf (@GBabeuf)

Antonis Balasopoulos

Sam Birbeck

Milan Brdar

Tiphaine Dickson

Jessica Eden

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Edward Michael Gomeau

Phil Greaves

Heli Guy

Hiroyuki Hamada

Aleksandar Jokic

Mitra Kabutar

Exir Kamalabadi

Molly Klein

Jacob Levich

Derek Liedel

Karen MacRae

Debolina Majumder

Evelyn Pappas

Robert Peplin

Anastasis Pissourios

Sylvia Posadas

Yannis Prantalos

Darrell Rankin

Leandros Savvides

John Steppling

Apostolos Terhinoglou

Fotis Thanos

Robert Thorpe

Srećko Vojvodić

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