Bringing together a selection of Slavoj Zizek's major writings on politics, this book includes his interventions on such world political events as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the American-led invasion of Iraq, his celebration of the revolutionary potential of Stalinism, and his critique of Third Way politics.

Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's Third Way; Section I. The Absent Second Way; 1. Eastern European Liberalism and Its Discontents; 2. Why We All Love to Hate Haider; 3. Heiner Muller Out of Joint; Section II. Really Existing Socialism; 4. Why are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst not Fascists?; 5. The Fetish of the Party; 6. Georg Lukacs as the Philosopher of Leninism; 7. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kolkhoz Musicals; 8. Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism; Section III. Really Existing Capitalism; 9. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism; 10. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'; 11. A Plea for 'Passive Aggressivity'; 12. The Three Faces of Bill Gates; 13. The Prospects of Radical Politics Today; Section IV. What is (Not) To Be Done; 16. Against the Double Blackmail; 17. Welcome to the Desert of the Real; 18. The Iraq War-Where is the True Danger?; Author's Afterword: Where Do We Stand Today?; Glossary.