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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/18/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > The question is, though, where is a revolutionary potential?
>
> I'm going to let my elbows heal completely before I develop this or any
> other point.
>
> But that is _not_ the question. It never has been the question. It never
> will be the question.
>
> Where is the revolutionary potential is never asked in the abstract but
> discovered (unexpectedly) in the course of practice.

I don't think you discover it unless you are looking for it.  You will
not notice it even if it hits you upside of your head if your vision
has, perhaps even unbeknownst to yourself, already narrowed to the
frame of progressive capitalist development as the only future.
-- 
Yoshie