[lbo-talk] zizek, lenin, parties, srsly?

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Well, I have problems with Jodi Dean's approach and rhetoric and I think
Zizek's better as an entertaining provocateur than he is at soberly
interpreting Lenin. I rely on Lars Lih and others for that. (And for that
matter, I'm more interested in the early SPD.) But I do think a these
discussions about organization and "the Party" are useful. If you're
interested, I wrote a short blog post that critiqued Dean's last talk here:
http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=1337 ... some of my only ranty thoughts are at
the bottom.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> Really? Lenin. I mean, I remember Doug going on a bit about Lenin
> after Zizek tossed the idea around some years ago. But it never seemed
> to have gone further than that!
>