Clown Prince of the Revolution: On Slavoj Žižek, a new kind of leftist thinker [El príncipe payaso de la revolución: Sobre Slavoj Žižek, un nuevo tipo de pensador izquierdista]

This writing aims to analyze the basic premises of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek's ideological discourse, with its peculiar combination of Marxism, irony, revolutionary ideology, anti-system demagoguery, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, to critically look at its premises and foundations, while trying to find an explanation for the popularity of Žižek in western universities today, and the ease with which it is currently accepted by so many academics with hardly a minimum critical questioning.