2 Europes: anti-immigrantt and Brussels Europe...both horrific

Zizek argues that the European central government is reduced, perhaps not unfairly, to little more than an instrument of global capital; in touch only with the managerial class and unable to provide a unified response to any of the manifold problems assailing Europe in 2016. The deadening effect on public and political life of a Brussels beholden to its banks thus finds its perverse echo in the considerable number of voters now throwing their weight behind Europe’s new far-right. The task of the left, according to Žižek, is nothing less than to save Europe from itself.

“There are basically at this moment two strong Europes: anti-immigrant, racist Europe and this anonymous Brussels Europe. They are both horrific. If this remains the only choice, Europe is over.”