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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> >Are there such people? Trotsky? Gramsci? Lukacs?
>
> Trotsky, Gramsci, and Lukacs stood farthest from the "narcissism of
> the lost cause," and they are not the ones that Zizek has in his
> mind. I don't know whom Lacan had in mind, but Zizek's object of
> criticism is probably those with whom he is most familiar -- Ernesto
> Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and the like on the theoretical front, and
> liberals on the political front (the sort of liberals who would turn
> Gramsci on his head, stripping him of his passion for socialist
> revolution and making him out to be a theorist of an endless war of
> positions in electoral and cultural politics).
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As is wont to happen when one reads Gramsci alongside another extremely influential conflict theorist: James Madison.
Ian