Re: Zizek: “Where to look for revolutionary potential?”
On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:15 PM, B. wrote:
It is effectively surprising how many features of slum dwellers fit the good old Marxist determination of the proletarian revolutionary subject: they are =93free=94 in the =
double meaning of the word even more than the classic proletariat (=93freed=94 from all substantial ties, dwelling in a free space, outside the =
police regulations of the state); and they are a large collective, forcibly thrown together, =93thrown=94 into a situation where they have to invent some mode of being-together, and simultaneously deprived of any =
support in traditional ways of life, in inherited religious or ethnic life-forms.
Yeah, except the proles are the motor of the capitalist system; =
without their labor, the whole thing would collapse. Without the slum =
dwellers, what?
Doug