>How does this vision of human authenticity differ from the vision
>set out in the passages from Zizek I recently quoted or from the
>identification of Marxian politics with "struggle" disconnected from
>any consideration of what struggle is for, from any consideration of
>"cookbooks for the future"?
Not dissimilar. And compare the neocons' attitude towards prosperity with that of our hair-shirt leftists, who hate the decadence of modern consumer capitalism, as a distraction from the real business of life, which is...struggle.
Doug