Žižek przed bramą rewolucji
Žižek at the Gates of Revolution

Summary/Abstract: In the article I discuss three assumption that are at the basis of Slavoj Žižek concept of the political subject. The fist one is the assumption that the traumatic dimension of the concept of the political implies the intractable social antagonism that has its roots in the inherently contradictory logic of the process of production in the capitalist economy (second assumption). These two factors are intertwined and result of this is anti-Semitism, which underlies the unconscious phantasm of Jew-bloodsucker (third assumption). This phantasm functions in the capitalist bourgeois societies as a sort of justification for the fact that they do not represent a desirable harmonious unity but are ridden through deep class antagonisms and conflicts. I try to verify critically the reliability of these assumptions while pointing to the fact that the same phantasm was also very vivid in the societies under the communist rule where there were no place for market economy, and the party propaganda propagated idyllic image of the “real” unity of socialist society

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