[lbo-talk] Sipping Wine (was Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" )

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 17 14:43:50 PDT 2007


--- Ira Glazer <ira at yanua.com> wrote:


> Apropos of Wojtek's 'I will be sipping wine in my
> modest middle class
> apartment, looking through the window and waiting
> for all that brouhaha
> to die down,' see the classic Cuban film, 'Memories
> of
> Underdevelopment' ('Memorias del Subdesarrollo' in
> the original Spanish)
> by Tomas Gutierrez Alea
>
> It has the best depiction I've seen yet of the
> intellectual observing a
> revolution that's taking place all around him

[WS:] He must have been smoking some really good stuff. All revolutions were made by intellectuals: Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Fidel, Pol Pot... The proles were just tools in their hands.

Wojtek

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