Slavoj Zizek: What To Do about Capitalism
by Slavoj Žižek
One of the clearest lessons of the last few decades is that capitalism is indestructible. Marx compared it to a vampire, and one of the salient points of comparison now appears to be that vampires always rise up again after being stabbed to death. Even Mao’s attempt, in the Cultural Revolution, to wipe out the traces of capitalism, ended up in its triumphant return.
Today’s Left reacts in a wide variety of ways to the hegemony of global capitalism and its political supplement, liberal democracy. It might, for example, accept the hegemony, but continue to fight for reform within its rules (this is Third Way social democracy).
Or, it accepts that the hegemony is here to stay, but should nonetheless be resisted from its ‘interstices’.
Or, it accepts the futility of all struggle, since the hegemony is so all-encompassing that nothing can really be done except wait for an outburst of ‘divine violence’ – a revolutionary version of Heidegger’s ‘only God can save us.’
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Capitalism is definitely here to stay - there's no other system that is so compatible with human nature - the greed, egotism, will to survive at any cost, consummerism, etc. If you don't believe in God, there's nothing that can save us from it. The only hope is that with time it will evolve into something more sophisticated where material needs are replaced by spiritual needs - that's our only hope :)
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