Žižek has made me interested in continental thinkers in the

You might consider jumping in a bathtub with a hairdryer first.

you got to do post-structuralists if you want to do the full zizek

he is in their tradition, that structure explains the victory of capitalism

>>9218716
go for Debord and Lukacs, structural marxism was a dead end imo

>>9218716
Althusser is a meme, his essay on ideology might be worth a read but nothing more than that.

The Frankfurt School is the real place to begin, Walter Benjamin and Adorno

>>9218716
read Marx and then stop

>>9218739
I've been reading various early works of Marx, and it has really changed the way I view philosophy, this was a genius at work. Generally, I think he presents a persuasive critique of the philosophical tradition and the resolution of its major questions in political practice. Any philosophy after Marx that attempts an abstract, politically neutral viewpoint has to justify its method, since it is clear that every attempt at theorising involves a complex set of historical and social assumptions as well as the economic circumstances of the individual.
I've recently bought a doorstopper edition of Capital though so I'll get more serious about it.