As the world emerges (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises are taking center stage: rampant inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees and rising tensions from a new Cold War. The constant motif of our time is merciless chaos. In the ashes of the failures of the new century, Žižek declares the need for international solidarity, economic transformation and, above all, urgent communism. The focus of Slavoj Zizek's new book, traditionally paradoxical and philosophically action-packed, is on Trump and Rammstein, Amazon and Covid, Afghanistan and Christ, George Orwell and Internet trolls, Lenin and lithium, Biden and Europe, as well as dozens of other significant phenomena. whom Žižek draws on for a radical analysis of modernity.