Wang Huning: America Against America as CCP bible

01:01:41 — Wang Huning: America Against America as CCP bible

Žižek keeps returning to a figure barely known in the West: Wang Huning, a senior ideologist of the CCP whose book America Against America — written thirty years ago after a two-year stay in the United States — is treated, in his phrase, as a bible there. What Wang extracted from his American stay was the classic soft-fascist question: how to preserve capitalism’s productive energy while suppressing the social disintegration it causes. Reading contemporary China without him, Žižek suggests, is reading without the manual.