Politics as Affirmation

Undoubtedly the most insidious ploy of late capitalist society is the channeling of genuinely human impulses into a resolute commitment to political impotence.

Politics as Affirmation

Undoubtedly the most insidious ploy of late capitalist society is the channeling of genuinely human impulses into a resolute commitment to political impotence. The elemental desire for a community of mutually recognizing individuals, when made to shortcircuit the dialectic of its satisfaction, serves to eradicate the basic conditions of thought. A mere whiff of the secondary process and the alarm will be pulled: We are being silenced! It’s a new Stalinism! “The sanctimony with which this can be announced is breath-taking.”


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