No seguimento deste post, permitam-me salientar mais um exemplo de outro erro crasso de Zizek. Afirma o dito filósofo que os nazis eram tradicionalistas, que a sua revolução visava restaurar uma ordem tradicional. Limito-me a citar Leo Strauss, em “German Nihilism“, onde, a dada altura, evidencia que no pós I Guerra Mundial existia um confronto entre os jovens alemães niilistas, muitos dos quais viriam a ser Nazis, e os progressistas, que, paradoxalmente, defendiam os ideais da civilização moderna: 

 

“Thus it came to pass that the most ardent upholders of the principle of progress, of an essentially aggressive principle, were compelled to take a defensive stand; and, in the realm of the mind, taking a defensive stand looks like admitting defeat. The ideas of modem civilisation appeared to the young generation to be the old ideas; thus the adherents of the ideal of progress were in the awkward position that they had to resist, in the manner of conservateurs, what in the meantime has been called the wave of the future. They made the impression of being loaded with the heavy burden of a tradition hoary with age and somewhat dusty, whereas the young nihilists, not hampered by any tradition, had complete freedom of movement – and in the wars of the mind no less than in real wars, freedom of action spells victory.”

 

De resto, recomenda-se fortemente, a Zizek e aos que, como ele, pensam que os Nazis eram tradicionalistas, a leitura do artigo na íntegra.