One of the big problems of all great - revolutionary movements of the 20th century - such...

Slavoj Zizek:
One of the big problems of all great - revolutionary movements of the 20th century - such as Russia, Cuba or China, - is that they did change the social body - but the egalitarian communist society was never realised. The dreams remained the old dreams - and they turned into the ultimate nightmare. Now what remains of the radical left - waits for a magical event - when the true revolutionary agent will finally awaken. While the depressing lesson of the last decades is that - capitalism has been the true revolutionising force. Even as it serves only itself