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In your book on the [[subject ]] you talk of a '[[true ]] [[universalism]]' as an opposite of this [[false ]] [[sense ]] of [[global ]] [[harmony]]. What do you mean by that?Slavoj [[Zizek]]: Here I [[need ]] to ask myself a simple Habermasian question: how can we ground universality in our [[experience]]? [[Naturally]], I don't accept this [[postmodern ]] [[game ]] that each of us inhabits his or her [[particular ]] [[universe]]. I believe there is universality. But I don't believe in some a priori universality of fundamental rules or [[universal ]] notions. The only true universality we have access to is [[political ]] universality. Which is not [[solidarity ]] in some abstract idealist sense, but solidarity in [[struggle]].If we are engaged in the same struggle, if we discover that — and this for me is the authentic [[moment ]] of solidarity — [[being ]] feminists and ecologists, or feminists and [[workers]], we all of a sudden have this insight: 'My God, but our struggle is ultimately the same!' This political universality would be the only authentic universality. And this, of course, is what is [[missing ]] today, because [[politics ]] today is increasingly a politics of merely negotiating compromises between different positions.