It depends what we mean by 'the majority of leftists'. There are plenty of people asking questions like that, or at least circling around them (including the FT and Newsnight and this episode of Hard Talk in the UK), enough that Paul Mason and other luminaries feel able to declare the end of 'capitalist realism'. Not all would call themselves 'leftists' though.
But, if we're talking about the social democratic mainstream, Zizek is right. It might not be an electoral zombie category but it is a political one, because even where it is mildly critical of austerity 'cutting too far and too fast' etc, it has no distinctive or hopeful message - no 'project' of the kind that it had in the post-war boom. As I see it, any credible mainstream social democratic politics has to be able to show firstly that capital can be harnessed to an egalitarian project (at whatever scale), and secondly that this project can be sustained through economic weather of the kind we're experiencing (or that the weather can be changed - 'no more boom and bust' etc). I see no evidence of any social democratic current like that, which would have to confront exactly the questions SZ is posing here, and which Marxism has always asked.
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