It is striking that the course on which Hugo Chávez has embarked since 2006 is the exact opposite of the one chosen by the postmodern Left: far from resisting state power, he grabbed it (first by an attempted coup, then democratically), ruthlessly using the Venezuelan state apparatuses to promote his goals.

At the London Review of Books, Slavoj Žižek explores the issue.

Tags: capitalism, lrb, slavoj zizek