[lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?"

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Mar 17 11:20:58 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:15 PM, B. wrote: [clip]
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> Yeah, except the proles are the motor of the capitalist system;
> without their labor, the whole thing would collapse. Without the slum
> dwellers, what?

One of the ways we wasted a hell a lot of time in the '60s was yakking about what groups would be the 'agents' of revolution. All nonsense. Engels quotes Napoleoon as saying something like "I act, then see what happens." That is how agents of political change are discovered.

Carrol



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