Slavoj on Lenin

[Doug Henwood]

All you Leninists out there may be glad to hear (or maybe you won't, 
since it might confound your paradigm) that at a reading last night 
in NYC, Slavoj Zizek said that it was time to go back to Lenin. 
"Everyone" now is talking about Marx, but that's too easy; we all 
know about alienation and the "fetishism of merchandise." What we 
need now, he said, is someone who'll cut off some heads.

By the way, to a questioner who implied he was guilty of 
Eurocentrism, Slavoj said "Yes, I'm a Eurocentrist." He pointed to 
the ANC, which in all its decades of struggle against apartheid, 
never wavered from a dedication to "universal" Englightenment values.

Doug