Zizek & Machiavelli, Not Hegel (was Re: Montesinos)

JKSCHW at aol.com JKSCHW at aol.com
Mon Oct 9 06:44:06 PDT 2000


In a message dated 10/8/00 9:20:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, furuhashi.1 at osu.edu writes:

<< My simple position is that one must accept being objective, not

subjective, supporters of the enemies of the evil empire, for the

short term. (Otherwise, we can't even join an anti-war

demonstration, for instance.) What matters is your objective action,

not your subjective opinion. >>

So we have to support Saddam Hussein? Not a chance. I managed to join--indeed to organize--antiwar demos against the Gulf war, and did it with you, Yoshie, and we were very careful _not_ to say, indeed to expressly deny, that we were supporters of Saddam Hussein. We said were were supporters the Iraqi people, as I recall. What's wrong with that perspective? And why not apply it in the former Yugoslavia? --jks



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