Žižek, Slavoj. First as Tragedy Then as Farce. New York: Verso, 2009. Print.
… the task is “merely” to stop the train of history which, left to its own course, leads to a precipice. (Communism is thus not the light at the end of the tunnel, that is, the happy final outcome of a long and arduous struggle — if anything, the light at the end of the tunnel is rather that of another train approaching us at full speed.)
This is what a proper political act would be today: not so much to unleash a new movement, as to interrupt the present predominant movement. An act of “divine violence” would then mean pulling the emergency cord on the train of Historical Progress. In other words, one has to learn fully to accept that there is no big Other
The moment the “big Other” falls, the Leader can no longer claim a privileged relationship to Knowledge — he becomes an idiot like everyone else. (152)