How to reinvent Lenin in the era of "cultural capitalism"
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
A return to Marx may be acceptable today ... But a repetition of
Lenin? ... Perhaps Zizek's return to Lenin is merely tactical,
figurative even. He can't be serious, can he? ... Zizek claims that
Lenin's act, 'his choice,' continues to speak to those of us on the
left today. Faced with our current conceptual deadlock, we must
have the courage, the nerve, to risk isolation, self-annihilation
even, in order to offer a real alternative to the false oppositions
recuperated by and churned out for our consumption by the image
industry of late capitalism ... The postmodernists and liberal
multiculturalists, today's Bernsteins and Kautskys-our contemporary
Plekhanovs and Martovs, beware!
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