I actually don't think that this helps Zizek's case. I can't help but noticing how much this particular moment of his text resonates with the description of the crowd provided by Gustav LeBon in his turn of the century analysis, The Crowd.
robert wood
> On Aug 22, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> That''s not exactly what he did. He said "they fit much better the
>> Hegelian notion of the ‘rabble’, those outside organised social space,
>> who can express their discontent only through ‘irrational’ outbursts of
>> destructive violence – what Hegel called ‘abstract negativity’."
>>
>> That's a bit different than "calling them rabble."
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> No one wants to read that part. They want to fixate on the word and go
> Nyah! Nyah!
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