[lbo-talk] Rethinking Things from Scratch

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Apr 22 06:46:10 PDT 2004



>[lbo-talk] Sadr calls for UN force
>Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
>Tue Apr 20 11:26:04 PDT 2004
<snip>
>I see a left that's kind of fucked - everywhere, and especially the
>U.S. - and it makes me want to rethink a lot of things from scratch.
>That's the spirit that Zizek admires in the Lenin of 1914, and I
>think it's worthy of emulating, even if there isn't all that much of
>relevance in his texts.

The question is why "rethinking a lot of things from scratch" only leads to old ideas and images: vote for Democrats and protest them; establish a UN mandate; demand a new Magna Carta; etc. -- Yoshie

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