[lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 13:55:28 PST 2015


On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:

That's when a regime collapses. Zizek tells the story of the refusal of the
> Shah's cops to fire on demonstrators as marking the end of his reign.

By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different matter. Do you have a citation for Žižek's version? I'd be interested in seeing exactly what he means.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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