For Zizek, I would argue, the Palestinian cause is the singular universal, as the proletariat is for Marxism. The concrete universal is the totality, which in our case today is capitalism. No particular can occupy the concrete universal. Each particular is an abstract universal. In Hegel the distinction is defined as self and other. The self is the whole, the totality. Each particular is a part of the self-whole but the whole is not the sum of its parts. It's in this sense that Zizek thinks that Lacan's theory of sexuation can also be applied to philosophy. So the "becoming black of the world" (Mbembe) is hard to imagine outside of something like black neoliberalism since blackness has no political content per se. The book on this is Walter Benn Michaels, The Shape of the Signifier. There is a difference between feudal colonization and capitalist colonization, for example, as discussed by Ellen Meiksins Wood in The Origin of Capitalism. Race metaphysics is not a good direction for socialist internationalist politics, as discussed by the work of for example Adolph Reed and Barbara and Karen Fields.
For Zizek, I would argue, the Palestinian cause is the singular universal, as the proletariat is for Marxism. The concrete universal is the totality, which in our case today is capitalism. No particular can occupy the concrete universal. Each particular is an abstract universal. In Hegel the distinction is defined as self and other. The self is the whole, the totality. Each particular is a part of the self-whole but the whole is not the sum of its parts. It's in this sense that Zizek thinks that Lacan's theory of sexuation can also be applied to philosophy. So the "becoming black of the world" (Mbembe) is hard to imagine outside of something like black neoliberalism since blackness has no political content per se. The book on this is Walter Benn Michaels, The Shape of the Signifier. There is a difference between feudal colonization and capitalist colonization, for example, as discussed by Ellen Meiksins Wood in The Origin of Capitalism. Race metaphysics is not a good direction for socialist internationalist politics, as discussed by the work of for example Adolph Reed and Barbara and Karen Fields.
Thanks for your helpful and inspiring comment. Interestingly, I have an interview with Walter Benn Michaels. Regards.