Capitalism is, he believes, incapable of resolving the biggest challenges of the day: environmental catastrophe and the abuse of information technology, intellectual property rights and biogenetics. | what particularly fascinates him is the ideological battle over how to interpret the financial crisis. | According to Žižek, the reason Hitler came to power in the 1930s was because he offered the most attractive interpretation of disastrous events. He simply flattered the Germans by claiming that their army had been betrayed in the first world war and by laying all the blame at the feet of the Jews. | Žižek is obsessed with the way that societies interpret events and the belief systems that underpin politics.
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