[lbo-talk] Zizek's view on the embrace of ignorance

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Apr 25 17:47:04 PDT 2003


At 4:51 PM -0700 4/25/03, Mike Ballard wrote:
>Most on the left are not as honest about what they want.
>
>Do socialists really just want 'nice' wage-labour or do they want to
>critique the way wage-labour is ALWAYS exploitive and propose ways
>and means to strengthen classwide solidarity to the point of abolish
>the system of wage-labour?

What socialists? If you are talking about parties of the Socialist International (see <http://www.socialistinternational.org/2Members/who.html>), of course they don't intend to "abolish the system of wage-labour." Many (most?) Communist Parties in the world have given up on the idea of abolishing capitalism. There remain some revolutionaries -- socialists, anarchists, etc. -- in "the West," but the number is so small that our maximum demands are practically _always_ off the agenda -- we mainly provide initiatives and critical edges to social movements when we can; quite often, we end up getting pushed to the margins of the very movements to which we devote our all, even when we aren't quite purged from them.

Outside the circle of the imperial centers, too, the torch of abolitionism only burns fitfully. Look at Argentina -- its conditions today _cry out_ for a socialist or anarchist solution, and yet.... -- Yoshie

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