In this thankfully lucid conclusion to Chapter 8, Žižek throws up some ironies of democracy to ponder.

Featuring Lenin, Badiou, Benjamin, Hegel, Marx, Danton, Robespierre, Balibar, Saint-Just, Proudhon, Louis XVI, Orwell, Lefort, Kant, Jacques-Alain Miller, Lacan, Spinoza, Gauchet, Stalin, Mao, Rancière, Peter Hallward.

'"the People exists" through a determinate political agent which acts as if it directly embodies (not only re-presents) the People, its true Will (the totalitarian Party and its Leader), that is, in the terms of transcendental critique, as a direct phenomenal embodiment of the noumenal People'

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