[lbo-talk] umbrellas and hasidism

[Carrol Cox]

Zizek is almost too kind to multiculturalism,Diversity, etc. The coining
of these terms marks the gravestone on the Black Liberation Movement of
the '60s. That movement having been stopped (mostly by murder, e.g., of
Hampton) and other repressive measures, partly by granting of minimally
necessary demands an the consequent creation of a black "middle class"
with interests of their own independent of Black Liberation, a polite
replacement was needed to sop up or isolate any remaining serious
struggle gainst racism. Multicultralism did the trick.

Carrol

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> 
> I think here we had enough of this multicultural
> ideology, which for me at least is often an
> inverted racism – namely for example when people
> come here – typically multiculturalists would
> say: “Oh I want to understand how you are
> different.” No, what you should understand is
> that fundamentally they are not different here –
> just different things happened to them.... I
> think we should totally object to this liberal
> blackmail; we should understand each other – no
> the world is too complex we can not – I hate
> people, I don't want to understand people. I want
> to have a certain code where I don’t understand
> your way of life and you don't understand mine but we still can coexist.
> 
> Slavoj Zizek in a recent interview, where he also
> calls himself "an old-fashioned Marxist."
> 
> http://www.euronews.net/2008/09/12/euronews-talks-films-and-balkans-with-slavoj-zizek/
> 
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