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• A leader without a body?

  The following is a quote from Ernesto Laclau’s The Populist Reason (Verso, 2005: 60-1), but, as he explains, he himself is quoting in extenso from Sigmund Freud. I think it is important to read this passage in relation to “A commune with a leader?” and “No commune without a leader?” postings. [It is even possible [...]

  Posted on Jan 03.07 to Capitalism, Class Analysis, Communism, Ernesto Laclau, Political Economy, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, The Impossibility of Society   

• No commune without a leader?

  This is transcribed from a documentary included among the supplementary matter for the BDR Trilogy (comprising of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola) DVD Box Set produced by those good people at the Criterion. The title of the documentary is I don’t just want you to love me and it is directed [...]

  Posted on Dec 19.06 to Cinema, Class Analysis, Communism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Impossibility of Society