Zizek discusses Karl Marx and his description of the proletarian experience. Specifically, he argues that one of the reasons why working-class and middle-class people today do not engage critically enough with capitalism is because the problems associated with it, from financial speculation all the way to climate change, has become divorced from their everyday experience and reality.

This clip is an excerpt from a talk held by Zizek in October 2018 titled "The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View" presented by the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU.

The clip was not edited by me. I took it from a channel on youtube called the radical revolution.