The Dangers of the Protest in Spain

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I think we live in hopeful times but at the same time in very dangerous times. It's easy to create, now I will tell you something horribly if your radical left is like me. But do we really have even in the vagus outline an ultimate model to propose? Like my friends from Greece are telling me, you know, the situation is terrifying. Also in a good sense now in Greece the system is almost disintegrating. People may take over. And what do you do then when people take over? What will you do? You play just some Keynesianism and nationalize industries. So is the change possible at all?

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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