Re: Zizek Machiavelli, Not Hegel (was Re: Montesinos)

2000-10-09 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Hi Gordon: But I do like "revolutionary defeatism" even if its outlines are vague. Defeatism against all states, governments, parties and bosses, by means of subversion, seduction, sabotage, deflection, absence, negation, dancing in the moonlight, or talking a walk. Hence my visceral

Zizek Machiavelli, Not Hegel (was Re: Montesinos)

2000-10-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
In a message dated 10/8/00 12:08:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tend towards the beautiful soul position, but at least I admit it. Once upon at time,w hen there was a movement inw hich they were important, Marxists had to worry about "dirty hands." Brecht wrote "The