The latest New Left Review has an article by the Lacanian theorist
Slavoj Žižek that returns to one of his favorite topics, Lenin. Frankly,
I think he should stick to Lacan since his enthusiasms over the Russian
revolutionary can only confuse the young radical deciding to check out
Lenin after he received an imprimatur from the celebrated Lacanian.
Since the article titled “How to Begin from the Beginning” is behind a
subscriber’s firewall, I would be happy to send it along to those who
are curious to see what Žižek has to say about the early Soviet Union.
It incorporates his by now familiar embrace of Lenin’s supposed
ruthlessness, a stance that is calculated to annoy liberals in the
academy rather than appeal to auto workers angry over getting screwed by
the Obama administration. They call it épater le bourgeois, or shock the
bourgeoisie. The term originated among French ‘decadent’ poets like
Baudelaire who used hashish and absinthe.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/zizek-lenin-and-firing-squads/
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