∑iek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance?Good theory; bad politics - this is how ∑iek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that ∑iek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of ∑iek's fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that ∑iek's turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of ∑iek's work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for ∑iekian theory.While ∑iek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative - communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Chris McMillan identifies ∑iek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing his work as a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism.Key Features: * Summarises key applications of psychoanalytic theory to politics and shared social life * Produces a sustained reading of ∑iek's understanding of the economy and capitalism * Considers the specific value of ∑iek's work as a form of political action * Responds to ∑iek's recent reference to the communist hypothesis and 'egalitarian justice'