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For Zizek, is ideology unique to capitalism?

My understanding of ideology in Zizek's work is that it is constituted by unconscious fantasies that structure our very experience of reality, and that these fantasies are whatever allows us to reproduce the current social order or continue to tie ourselves to it. For example, ethical consumerism is ideological because it convinces you that you only need to continue to consume to fix problems brought on by a consumerist society – you reproduce the same power structures of consumerism, but you also "buy your redemption". 

But from what Zizek says about psychoanalysis, I'm assuming that he thinks ideology *isn't* unique to capitalism, and that we are always in ideology – we would be in ideology under socialism, communism, or any other societal organization. 

But Zizek's discussions of ideology focus on capitalist ideology. I'm wondering: in the absence of capitalism, under some other system, what would ideology be? Just more fantasies that give our lives meaning? That makes "ideology" out to sound like a version of metaphysical anti-realism, or transcendental idealism – we only know the world through our own beliefs and concepts and desires and such?
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The film, The Perverts Guide to Ideology has several examples of Eastern Bloc ideology. In reference to the film Jaws, he makes the point that the ideological function of the shark changes depending on the position of the viewer (in America, fear of Russia; in Russia, fear of America; there are Catholic and buddhist interpretations, and so on).