I am writing to alert those interested that links to PDFs of the prepared remarks made by Spencer, Richard and me at the Platypus international convention's...
The selections from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is still under consideration -- we will address this reading in two weeks, on July 12. The greater...
Apropos of freedom and radical bourgeois philosophy-- This is probably my favorite monument that I saw in Paris--a monument to Diderot and the Encyclopedia....
Hello, I have two comments (they are a little late) to what is either a cheap provocation or an unfair attack on Zizek: "When Zizek writes of Western Marxism...
Zizek is a poseur. The frisson of being accused of being academic wimps who don't want to get their hands dirty makes a tingle in their pants, makes Zizek look...
The fact that Zizek is a poseur is only part, and a subordinate part, of the problem. The entire "Left" today consists of poseurs -- of gestures. So then the...
... The Spartacists are of no importance whatever, except as obstructionists to be gotten out of the way. As for the bickering factions of the Trotskyist...
You didn't say why Zizek isn't a real Hegelian, the charge which I take to be much more serious than the cheap branding of him as a Stalinist. Instead of...
On Iran, this is all personalized politics and wishful thinking. -- So now the protesters (including Moussavi) are to be transmuted into being more hard-core...
Part 1 of this talk is unlistenable, and has nothing to do with Iran as far as I can tell. Zizek is criticizing middle class liberals and avant-garde. Are...
Judging from the Hegel lists I subscribe to, being a Hegelian today could not be further from Marxism. What does being a Hegelian mean other than being a...
A common misunderstanding is that Hegel is an "idealist" while Marx is a "materialist." One must be careful about how each and both used such categories; one...
Comments interleaved: ... But it's true, though one should qualify what one is after in making this distinction. ... Yes. ... I disagree. The non-metaphysical...
Zizek finally begins to get to the politics of the Iranian rebellion in part 5. He questions the dichotomy operant in the analysis of the situation. I'm...
The difference between Hegel and Marx is industrial capital, not least the concomitant transformation of historical time, or, as Postone puts it, the "bursting...
I've made it about the same amount through the Zizek YouTube videos of June 18 on Iran, etc. (part 7, as of my writing now), and I think that his perspective,...
Or as G. Rose put it herself in Hegel contra sociology: "The first thesis on Feuerbach displays clearly a problem in Marx's presentation of actuality: Â The...
Unfortunately, I don't think Gillian Rose sufficiently developed her approach in Hegel Contra Sociology in later works, which are interesting, but do not...
I do not understand this response. What does the transformation of historical time and its relation to Newtonian physics mean? Sounds like gibberish to me? ...
This is a novel interpretation. I don't believe it, though. "In this thesis Marx reinforces the abstract oppositions between idealism and materialism, theory...
"As for the bickering factions of the Trotskyist movement, they are all living corpses, of no significance. As for Bolshevism, what on earth could that...
... Um, considering that Luxemburg was murdered in 1919, whereas the KAPD was founded in 1920, it would have been really difficult for her to "have something...
I was addressing the reception and currency of such "Left" communism as a specific symptom of the present, which has more to do with the legacy of the 1960s...
I have no preconceived notions about the council communists, nor am I a Lenin-basher. I'm generally hostile to the ultraleft, at least of recent vintage. But...
My point is not so much positive as "negative," meaning, does history have anything -- *critical* -- to offer in the present? Can we mount a critique of the...
Just two quick historical points: 1) Lenin admitted later that he had been wrong about not defending Luxemburg earlier. He went so far as to say in a letter in...
Hello, I have some comments on the proceeding forum discussion. Herman Gorter wrote in 1921 an article titled: "Why we need the Fourth Communist Workers'...
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