Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible

In the late 90s, political theorists, economists and politicians
were talking confidently about the “end of history” and the
undisputed triumph of liberal "democratic" capitalism. Communism
was written off as dead and buried. But after 9/11, the GFC, the
Arab Spring, and the protests spreading over Europe, the
ideological gloss of capitalism may be beginning to fade. If the
alternative is Putin's muscular Tsarism or China's authoritarian
capitalism, then renovating the idea of communism may matter
profoundly. For philosophical rock star and brilliant iconoclast
Slavoj Zizek, it is something that we should demand, no matter
how impossible it seems. The only true utopia today is that
things can go on indefinitely the way they are.