---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> Date: Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM Subject: From "A Plea for Leninist Intolerance," by Slavoj Zizek : To: sarai-list <[email protected]>
>From "A Plea for Leninist Intolerance," by Slavoj Zizek : Full: <http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v28/v28n2.zizek.html> "Fidelity to the democratic consensus means the acceptance of the present liberal-parliamentary consensus, which precludes any serious questioning of how this liberal-democratic order is complicit in the phenomena it officially condemns and, of course, any serious attempt to imagine a society whose sociopolitical order would be different. "In short, it means say and write whatever you want on the condition that what you do does not effectively question or disturb the predominant political consensus. So everything is allowed, solicited even, as a critical topic. [...] "The problem is that all this occurs against the background of a fundamental _Denkverbot_, a prohibition against thinking. Today's liberal-democratic hegemony is sustained by a kind of unwritten _Denkverbot_ similar to the infamous _Berufsverbot_ in Germany of the late sixties; the moment one shows a minimal sign of engaging in political projects that aim to seriously challenge the existing order, the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end in a new Gulag!" "[...] The moment one seriously questions the existing liberal consensus, one is accused of abandoning scientific objectivity for the outdated ideological positions. "This is the point that one cannot and should not concede: today, actual freedom of thought must mean *the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic postideological consensus--or it means nothing*. -- http://venukm.blogspot.com/ -- http://venukm.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
