Surveying the various challenges in the world today from mass migration and geopolitical
tensions to terrorism the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical
politics - all of which in their own way express the impasses of global capitalism - Zizek
explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today he proposes
the only true question is or should be this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of
capitalism as a fact of human nature or does today's capitalism contain strong enough
antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we he asks move beyond the failure of
socialism and beyond the current wave of populist rage and initiate radical change before the
train hits?
