Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin

[Reese]

At 10:56 AM 04/05/00 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Reese wrote:
>
>>  >Sorry to be predictable but which bits of Marx/Lenin are out of date?
>>
>>Which bits do you think are modern, mark?
>
>I'm not Mark, but just off the top of my head I'd say the 
>descriptions of factory life, though not literally accurate 
>desciptions of lots of work today, are still fresh evocations of work 
>under capitalism; the stuff in the Manifesto about the revolutionary 
>nature of capitalism (sorry, Lou Proyect); the analysis of the 
>phenomenal categories of profit, interest, and rent originating in 
>exploitation at the point of production is a timeless truth of 
>capitalism; the need to expand, colonize, and transform every corner 
>of the earth and every aspect of social life, ditto; the 
>contradictorily liberating and oppressive nature of capitalism, 
>megadittoes. And the stuff about credit and joint stock companies in 
>Vol. 3 of Capital is remarkably prescient, and better than most of 
>the writing on the subject by subsequent Marxists.

Hi Not Mark, ;b

This would cover Marx, perhaps Mark will address Lenin.

Reese