He's the guy who helps you realize you went up the mountain the wrong way. He's not the map for how to build a trail others can actually climb.

Where I still draw a line is, Zizek's negative dialectics and psychoanalysis are great for blowing up bad narratives (especially among the middle class, the academic left, Trotskyist fantasies, etc.), but they don't tell you how to reduce risk, build durable organizations, or survive repression.

The whole "they know very well what they're doing, and they do it nonetheless" line actually fits my own point that people can be lucid and still reproduce the system.

So my "good/bad ideology" spectrum still applies, but it's not a simple "workers = good ideology, PMC = bad ideology." Precarity narrows the room for bullshit, it doesn't erase it. Zizek isn't some crude "false consciousness" guy.

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Even in social democratic contexts, people act as if they deserve their position and feel anxious about wanting too much. The explanation of how you're being screwed isn't pre given, fascist, reactionary, or nationalist frames can win workers too.

When it comes to immediate material interests for precarious workers, like whether they can pay rent next month or if they'll get fired for speaking up, psychoanalysis doesn't really help much.