On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:36:25 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 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.
Someone who'll cut off some heads, eh? I suppose this is a reference to the ideals of the French Revolution - which is likely a spring from his chapter in The Ticklist Subject about the FR... I'm glad that Zizek is beginning to say such outrageous things... it finally gives me something to think critically about (because I'm so damn naive and I'm a bit tired of it). I'm going to absolutely hate his book on Christianity I suspect, and now that the heads are falling into buckets... I'll be able to renew my interest in nonviolent defence mechanisms and have a second go at Marcuse's notion of a psychic thermidor.
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