Leftists must have a substantial commitment

“Yes, but with Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them. For example, this goes to the absurd with many of my American friends who pretend to be left-wingers, anti-capitalist and so on, but who also play the stock market -- and so they secretly count on things functioning, on stocks and shares doing well, and so on.”

Slavoj Žižek, in Conversations with Žižek, by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Polity Press, 2004, p. 50).