Zizek s communism revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance Good theory bad politics this is how Zizek s works have been described Now Chris McMillan argues that Zizek s reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion He highlights the political consequences of Zizek s fundamental concepts such as the Lacanian Real universality and the communist hypothesis He argues that Zizek s turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of Zizek s work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for Zizekian theory While Zizek s work attracts a lot of labels most of them pejorative communist conservative anti semantic Chris McMillan identifies Zizek s unique and productive contribution to social and political theory constructing his work as a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism Key FeaturesSummarises key applications of psychoanalytic theory to politics and shared social lifeProduces a sustained reading of Zizek s understanding of the economy and capitalismContextualises Zizek s in relation to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalismResponds to Zizek s recent reference to the communist hypothesis and egalitarian justice