You like Zizek, then ? Have you read Ernest Laclau's work? I don't really have political compromise nowadays, but I think post-marxism offers an explanation of the world I can relate to. And since we are in the PD social thread I should add that Lacanian socialism is a damn trippy perspective on society.
What I can't get over with Orthodox Marxism is it's foundation on Hegelianism, which basically entraps it in thinking history is one, lienar unified narrative. It is not. It wouldn't make sense to me to give up from understanding history as a chaotic multidimensional and infinite stream of events with no particular protagonist just to make it an easier subject of analysis. But to each their own, mate. What's important is that things surely need to change.
Marx basically just ignores that part of Hegel, though. To Marx, history is a dynamic process - the never ending (until communism) process of class struggle. Marx gets a bad name for being deterministic/teleological about the inevitable progress of history toward communism, but saying that communism is the final stage of human society is simply true by definition according to Marx's historical materialist understanding of class and class conflict. Communism is the name for a society with only one class, so Marx is just saying that class conflict is inevitable as long as there are competing classes.
Anyway, I lean toward the Zizek/Lacan side of things heavily for more traditional/apolitical (pre-political?) questions, like the nature of reality and subjectivity. It is indeed a trippy social theory
At a Starbucks while my apt has an open house. Good times. Feeling a bit more motivated today - to do what, I still don't know, but at least I feel capable of being a functioning human being today. So I guess I'm saying I have only one important question to answer:
What is to be Done?
Edit: and I haven't read much Laclau, just skimmed paragraphs cut out of context in policy debate...
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality is next up on my reading list, though (it's a compilation of essays from Zizek, Laclau, and Butler - great stuff for fans of lack theory and radical-left politics).
Edit 2: a comrade on Facebook posted a very a propos Marx quote about the dynamics of history re: revolutionary agency:
History does nothing.
It possesses no immense wealth.
It wages no battles.
It's PEOPLE who do that--real, living people.
We are the ones who possess, and fight.
History is not, as it were, a person apart,
using us to achieve its own aims.
History is the activity of us pursuing our aims.
~adapted from Karl Marx, The Holy Family