>This is the heart of muffin
>minded phrases such as "another world is possible."
>
>Of course, it is, but how do we build it? Answering that question
>requires hard work and may demand even harder answers. Perhaps a
>Robespierre will be needed from time to time. But BHL (and those like
>him) seems unable to understand this.
As Zizek wrote recently:
>Faced with a disaster over which we have no real
>influence, people will often say, stupidly,
>‘Don’t just talk, do something!’ Perhaps,
>lately, we have been doing too much. Maybe it is
>time to step back, think and say the right
>thing. True, we often talk about doing something
>instead of actually doing it – but sometimes we
>do things in order to avoid talking and thinking about them.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v00/n03/zize01_.html