[p2p-research] recommended video by zizek

[Michel Bauwens]

hi daniel,

let's not have this discussion stalinist totalitarianism = communism, you
should know better ... I'm assuming that your studies did include a minimum
of political theory ?

your example is about just the opposite of what callinicos, himself a
trotskyist, would mean under communism ..

Michel




On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Araya <levelsixmedia at hotmail.com>wrote:

> It strikes me as funny that Callinicos seeks the museum of Capitalism in a
> Communist era when it would seem to work the other way: Take a trip to Burma
> or Cuba or North Korea and you find the living museums of communism in the
> era of global capitalism...
>
> 'So often the vocabulary of the previous wave of emancipation is taken as
> the standard for the next – as if all subsequent waves of emancipation
> should carry the banner of Voltaire and Diderot, of Marx or Che Guevara.
> As if secularism should be the touchstone for all newcomers to the
> gate – emancipation frozen in time, gilded, decorated and elevated on
> a pedestal, such as French laiciteì'.
>
> D
>
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:41:43 +0700
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> Subject: [p2p-research] recommended video by zizek
>
>
>
> http://versouk.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/idea-of-communism-callinicos-zizek-holloway-at-marxism/
>
> this video is really worth viewing and listening to, in order to have an
> idea of left thinking today ...
>
> alex callinicos presents the more traditional view, but zizek really rocks
> here, and if his nervous mannerisms irk you, just close your eyes
>
> both speakers confront the idea of the commons, talk about recent events in
> China, and much more,
>
> didn't get myself yet to the third speaker, john holloway ..
>
> Michel
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