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I suppose Zizek is rightly described as a performer.

I suppose Zizek is rightly described as a performer. He has this element of provocation that is very characteristic and does help to interest people, but I'm not certain that people who are reading Zizek are actually drawn very much nearer rethinking the problems of the left.

- Eric Hobsbawm, in Eric Hobsbawm: a conversation about Marx, student riots, the new Left, and the Milibands