Zizek's Lenin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 2 08:59:21 PDT 2000


Charles Brown wrote:


>When you say any objective measure , how about number of workers
>killed and maimed in automobile accidents ? How about number of
>workers killed and casualtied in crime ? Number of workers in prison
>?

Come on now. You're never going to win any significant number of First World workers to your cause with this sort of gloomy stuff. No wonder Leninism is so dead. Not "things are awful, rise up!," but "things could be lots better than this!" Optimism! Possibility!! I'm shocking myself by sounding so upbeat; maybe it's the new century.

Doug



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