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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/20/07, Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If for example, "investments in human capital" -- one
> of the things you assert to be more important than
> typically "radical" prescriptions -- were made, I
> imagine that people who are now considered surplus, or
> "lumpen" as you prefer, would no longer be quite so
> superfluous after all.

Everyone agrees that "investments in human capital," aka good
parenting, community, education, and training, are important.  It's
just that some of us think that, in a great many countries, it is not
possible to create the sort of government and civil society that allow
"investments in human capital" without first removing obstacles -- the
class power of the sort of rulers who prefer not to make such
investments and just exploit what's at hand -- to their creation.
-- 
Yoshie