The purpose of this paper is to elucidate and defend Žižek’s turn from the ethics of desire sustaining the empty place of democratic power to the subject of drive. The latter enables a transition to communism from the vantage point of what Žižek calls the proletarian position, which is the position of such people as the inhabitants of slums who are structurally excluded from global capitalism. The second section of this paper identifies the theoretical weaknesses of early Žižek’s democratic subject of desire which heavily draws upon the radical democratic theory of hegemony provided by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The third section provides an in-depth account of the logic of drive in Tarrying with the Negative (1999) in order to counter the claim made by his critics that the subject of the Lacanian drive in Žižek is a Romantic Subject devoid of social and economic specificity. The fourth section delineates the contour of Žižek’s communism by analyzing his discussion into three main points: communism of commons, the proletarian position and the will of intervention including the use of state power in a “non-statal mode.” In the final section, I will explicate Žižek’s mature theory since Less than Nothing (2012) with particular attention to the ways in which the focus on the concept of drive has led Žižek to articulate the philosophical differences with Hegel.