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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...isely NOT to succumb to the temptation to act, to directly intervene and [[change]] things (which then inevitably ends in a cul de sac of debilitating [[impo ...[[necessity]] of a radical change to make it sure that nothing will really change!" Symptomatic is here the journal October: when you ask one of the editors
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twice had to [[change]] their Party line overnight (after the Soviet-[[German]] pact, it was [[im ...e focus on the plight of the Afghani refugees, and, more generally, on the catastrophic food and health situation in Afghanistan, so that, sometimes, military [[ac
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...stories, in which the hero intervenes in the past in order to prevent some catastrophic event to occur, yet the unexpected result of his intervention is an even wo ...situation staged by his "learning plays," actors/agents themselves have to change, progressing towards a different [[subjective]] stance, he effectively poin
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...having proved that such a reference to some metaphysical a priori leads to catastrophic "totalitarian" [[social]] consequences, the only solution is to accept that ...hy of History." The "truth," for them, emerges when a [[victim]], from his catastrophic [[position]] in the [[present]], gains a sudden insight into the entire [[p
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...k from the Vietnam tutelage — what better way to [[signal]] this than to CHANGE THE DATE of the party foundation, i.e. to rewrite history and to acknowledg ...with a wager that this very "premature" [[intervention]] will radically [[change]] the "objective" relationship of forces itself, within which the initial s
  63 KB (10,138 words) - 03:25, 21 May 2019
• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...logies]] of "postindustrial" societies. It is my hypothesis that the key [[change]] concerns the status of [[private property]]: the ultimate element of [[po ...ecisely not to succumb to the temptation to act, to directly intervene and change things (which then inevitably ends in a cul-de-sac of debilitating [[imposs
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...isely not to succumb to the temptation to act, to directly intervene and [[change]] things (which then inevitably ends in a cul de sac of debilitating [[impo ...r. Otherwise, the price to be paid may appear much too high-[[recall]] the catastrophic consequences of the [[German]] [[Communist]] Party's decision in the early
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...o to its neighbors, and we should liberate the Iraqi [[people]]; (3) the [[change]] of regime in Iraq will create the [[conditions]] for the [[resolution]] o ...something terribly wrong with THIS war, that something will irretrievably change with it.
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...tion of Iraq? Prior to the US attack on Iraq, everyone feared some kind of catastrophic outcome: an ecological catastrophe of gigantic proportions, high U.S. casua ...are taking place here and now. The ultimate result of the war will be a [[change]] in OUR political order.<br><br>
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...he violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in itself a positive [[sign]], a sign of (some kind of) [[progress] ...rowing distrust in democracy to the fact that, after every revolutionary [[change]], the road to new prosperity leads through a "valley of tears": after the
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...cle they try to get rid of, than with the object they try to reach, they [[change]] their [[nature]] and become irascible and hateful. This is how amour de s ...ing more hurricanes than usual due to man-made global warming. Second, the catastrophic immediate effect of the hurricane (the city under water) was to a large ext
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  2. You shall [[change]] the world, not just sell things. ...protesting and fighting on the streets: now they have changed in order to change the world, to revolutionise our lives for [[real]]. Didn’t [[Marx]] say t
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• Surrealism
  ..., gave the group its international flavor. Surrealism's [[goal]] was to "[[change]] [[life]]" (Arthur Rimbaud) by freeing humanity from the constraints of [[ ...have to conform does not actually foster their survival. Indeed, it has a catastrophic effect on them.
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...-based Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a stolen [[nuclear weapon] ...at this message is so openly stated. It is a sad indication of the deep [[change]] in our [[ethical]] and [[political]] standards.
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...revolution]] without revolution," the idea that somehow, everything will [[change]], but nobody will be really hurt. No, sorry, it hurts.<br><br> ...ere was a [[global]] shift, but we never voted about that. So, the biggest change, the biggest [[structural]] shift in the entire logic of capitalistic, demo
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...tion of Iraq? Prior to the US attack on Iraq, everyone feared some kind of catastrophic outcome: an ecological catastrophe of gigantic proportions, high U.S. casua ...are taking place here and now. The ultimate result of the war will be a [[change]] in OUR political order.
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e in crimes against humanity even within its own territory. And the recent catastrophic [[economic]] situation in [[Russia]], far from [[being]] the heritage of ol ...ion!" One [[thing]] is for sure: the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia will [[change]] the global geopolitic coordinates. The unwritten pact of peaceful coexist
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  [[change]] merely reflects the change in my identity. Perhaps, something similar occurs in change in God (no longer the transcendent Other, but Christ) is just the 'reflexiv
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...having proved that such a reference to some metaphysical a priori leads to catastrophic "totalitarian" [[social]] consequences, the only solution is to accept that ...hy of History." The "truth," for them, emerges when a [[victim]], from his catastrophic [[position]] in the [[present]], gains a sudden insight into the entire [[p
  71 KB (11,385 words) - 21:34, 20 May 2019
• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...logies]] of "postindustrial" societies. It is my hypothesis that the key [[change]] concerns the status of [[private property]]: the ultimate element of [[po ...ecisely not to succumb to the temptation to act, to directly intervene and change things (which then inevitably ends in a cul-de-sac of debilitating [[imposs
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