Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin

[Gordon Fitch]

Doug Henwood:
> Since when does Marx = "left jargon"? I can't think of any writer I 
> find more enlightening, even exhilarating, to read.
> 
> Lenin's another issue, though. I'm really curious about what of his 
> is relevant to life in 2000. Reimagining a Lenin for today is one 
> thing; making his formaldehyde-suffused corpse walk and talk is 
> another.

In the past, grunging through the grunge-fields of Usenet,
I found his famous analysis of the relationship between
capitalism and imperialism to be useful in explaining, even
to libertarians, some of the things that happened in the
20th century.  I guess that's all passe' now.