All this talk about “the liberal communists Bill Gates and George Soros” and how “the neoliberals are now more leninist than the Leninists” is getting increasingly :sus:
He was an anarchist of some sort I think?
Skimmed his book ‘postcapitalist desire’ he is explicitly an anticommunist. He refuses to use the word because of the ‘unspeakable evils’ of communism and extols the hippies.
Huh? Y’all people are consuming doomerism theory from an incoherent anticommunist yank? (Forgive the redundancy)
Leninism is when you use the immense power of the state to do things?
A friend of mine told me it was good and not too long so I decided to get it and give it a read. Tbf the first 3 and a half chapters have been pretty good for the most part until he got onto the weird stuff I mentioned.
I don’t know anything really about Lacan so I was just nodding through all the bits where he talks about Lacanian stuff and trying to understand them.
Also the bit where he said that being born British could be considered a sickness was pretty funny.
Lacan is a brain virus that infects academic leftists and makes them see all kinds of weird shit. It’s like muscle bros taking acid. You see part of the picture, but then become convinced that because you saw past a small part of the illusion of ideology, you saw past everything, rather than grasping how little we actually know and understand about reality.
And then you lecture and write books on it forever becoming increasingly disconnected from working class and activist movements.
This is basically Fisher and Zizek distilled. The only thing saving the chapos is that they are too lazy to read Lacan, and only Matt is kinda academic enough to fall for it.
I’m intrigued, do you have a semi or non academic intro to Lacan? I can deal with some smarty pants words but not all of them so it doesn’t have to be completely dumbed down.
To me stuff like Lacan or Deleuze and similar stuff always seemed like impenetrable bloviating.
He wasn’t a trot because he wasn’t a marxist
