Re: [Marxism] Zizek interview in the FT

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <ok.president+nbsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:

>
> Look, if you think that the rise of Stalin was a family values response
> to Bolshevik sexual experimentation, be my guest.

He's not saying that this is the *entire* explanation of Stalinism --
just that this was *part* of Stalinism's appeal to the masses. It was
also paradigmatic (a "paradigmatic" example), I think he's arguing, of
the *general* thirst for stability and "normalcy" after the trauma and
tumult of the early years, all of which led people to favor Stalinism.
So it's not as if the psychological/cultural explanation is totally
disjoint from the economic/political one. They are both materially
produced.

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