In this book, Slavoj Zizek invites us to think of Lenin as a pure affirmation of politics in a world increasingly reified by capitalist production relationships and more convinced that capitalism is the ultimate horizon of human sociality. In his view, the cultural drills of show society have inoculated in the protest movements a dangerous ambiguity when thinking about constituent political processes, skillfully playing with the perenniality of the current forms of parliamentary democracy and the existing models of legitimization of the constitutional state. Such ambiguity can be displaced, in his view, by the unprecedented recovery of the creative tension of Lenin's action and thought, since the imagination of a new policy constitutes the sine qua non condition of an action that is radically transformative. Slavoj Zizek calls on Lenin to think of new forms of politics that allow us to conceive of a more just, democratic and egalitarian global order, and thus evade the sad omens that power wants to impose on us in the fascinating new desert of the real.