Eric wrote:
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> The real problem with Zizek, aside from the tedious moralism at work
> in the quote I posted, is that for him, as for Leninism and
> liberalism, organization is always something transcendent, something
> the poor/working class must come to. Organization preexists the
> group's actual actions, and deviations from the organizational model
> get called "infantile leftism" (Lenin) or "juvenile outbursts" (Zizek
> on the banlieu rioters).
It's odd how the only Lenin most people read is the Lenin refracted through the 3d international. The whole of Lenin's political thought presupposed spontaneous collective acts as the context for political organization. Organization is an emergent property of such activity, without which the activity itself dies out.
Carrol