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Zizek is a Communist. He was being intentionally ambiguous about his beliefs. His primary intention was to dispel the nonsense fantasy of the postmodern neomarxist. He is nonetheless critical of Stalinism and the like, but maintains a certain fascination with their ideological force (such as in the case of Lenin, the Jacobins, etc etc). He advocates a Decisionistic Anti-Humanist Politics of the Act. It would do you well to perhaps read Badiou, who was a very important influence on Zizeks own thought. These texts in particular:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php

https://www.versobooks.com/books/513-the-idea-of-communism

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1872-the-communist-hypothesis

https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Essay-Understanding-Radical-Thinkers/dp/1781680183

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As for Zizek, these sources would be good:

http://www.lacan.com/zizrobes.htm

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2445-in-defense-of-lost-causes

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Admittedly, if you are not familiar with Zizek, these will be very dense.

I personally found this one, one of the best introductions to the key arguments itself: https://www.amazon.de/How-Read-Lacan-Slavoj-Zizek/dp/1862078947/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1491763225&sr=1-1&keywords=lacan+zizek

The graphic novel was quite broad and seemed to focused on the variety of his topics of interest

The absolute easiest of his books is Demanding the Impossible. It is an extended interview, so it broken up into relatively concise and self-contained sections for each question.

If you're looking for full book that's still on the easy side, I would check out Trouble in Paradise or First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, which are on similar topics. His book Violence is also quite readable, but I think the other three make better introductions to his thought.

Just thought I'd throw this out there, Zizek's humor is a direct engagement with this work by Freud:
http://www.amazon.com/Joke-Relation-Unconscious-Penguin-Classics/dp/0142437441

The advice I always give to people getting into Zizek is that you absolutely must have a basic understanding of Lacan. He is a Lananian first and foremost, and he makes liberal use of Lacanian terminology that cannot be easily understood from the context (for example the Real doesn't mean what everyone assumes when they hear "the Real").

This is a good primer. It's still quite difficult but stick with it and you should get the general concepts. This book should be easier to read, but it's much more surface level than the other introduction I linked.

Tony Meyers does a very good job on introducing the main ideas

https://www.amazon.com/Slavoj-Zizek-Routledge-Critical-Thinkers/dp/0415262658

Anything by Howard P. Kainz would be a good place to start. https://www.amazon.com/Hegels-Phenomenology-Part-Analysis-Commentary/dp/0821408909

I started with a few essays by zizek and like you, started with Puppet and the Dwarf as my first book of his. And I felt like it was slightly over my head.

So I bought Adrian Johnston's book on Zizek's Ontology. Which was more than a simple summary of Zizek's thought. It was complex enough to keep my mind reeling, but less fuzzy than Zizek was to me at the time. Basically it was the base I needed to understand all the terms and philosophers that Zizek uses without explanation.

If I remember Zizek's quote about the book, it was: "This book is more Zizek than myself"

Yeah! Here is one of them (his most newest), but he has others on Trotsky and Mao too!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07H9BGR8H/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/like-thief-in-broad-daylight-power-in-era-post-humanity/id1436169982
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Ian M. Banks' Culture novels are deep beyond the end of capitalism, private property, and authority.

Several other books are noted here in this short essay by Margaret Killjoy. A larger examination of utopian fiction which is more academically sound and absolutely fantastic is Fredric Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future. Other works on post-capitalism noted here and here.

Most famously, the Star Trek series exists in a deeply post-capitalist world.

You should know some Freud. Seminar XI is not that hard compared to other seminars, but it is Lacan we are talking about, so it is never that simple.

I would just start reading it, and maybe read Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject. You might also want to read Reading Seminar XI.

Apparently he's...working on something. Between that, the new book he's working on and the book soon to be released about him, I don't think we're hearing the last of him anytime soon.

I have three suggestions:

1. The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy
   
   
2. The shorter Logic
   
   
3. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

As listed by Žižek in the film Žižek!:

• The Sublime Object of Ideology
  
• Tarrying with the Negative
  
• The Ticklish Subject
  
• The Parallax View
  
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