If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisance he has since become. Indeed, if there were no greater reason to regret the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the release of Zizek on to the world of Western scholarship would perhaps already be a sufficient one.
Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
literature, marxism, slavoj-zizek