Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future

by Slavoj Žižek

Some of the noblest parts of our emancipatory tradition (anti-Fascist and anti-racist struggle, rejection of our commercialized and hedonistic way of life, the fight against financial elites exploiting ordinary people, the efforts to abolish leftovers of colonization . . .) are being gulped down by political leaders around the world. Their neo-Fascist or neoliberal digestive enzymes are removing the radical acidity of the ideas they’ve swallowed, and turning them into pieces of shit that smoothly fit the existing global capitalist system, although they present themselves as its destruction.

In order to claim some kind of leadership—I am not even talking about global leadership, I mean leadership in any area—any country, any people, any ethnic group should ensure their sovereignty. Because there is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is sovereign, or it is a colony, no matter what the colonies are called.61