Acts of Resistance

[constant escape]

I would like to watch some Hitler speeches though, in the interest of comparing them to Stalin's speeches. Zizek makes the joke about how the former receives applause while the latter joins in the applause, as if applauding the party itself.

 

[woops]

that zizek, what a card, must be his secret with the ladies

 

[catalog]

Stan you know that story of emmett grogan the digger at the Dialectics of liberation conference in thd 70s and he did a rousing speech brought the house down they said where do we sign and he said the speech was word for word what hitler had said in tghe reichstag in 1933

 

[vimothy]

Hitler was also a big hit with the ladies. something to think about there, I reckon.

 

[constant escape]

Haven't heard of Emmett Grogan, but that sounds totally plausible. You could probably get away with something like that in the US today, if it weren't for the internet.

Could be said to reveal how hollow/superficial the opposition to the Nazis can be, which is the more frightening thing to me: that people can replicate the developments of the Nazis while preserving the pretense that they are opposed to the Nazis. Could be a paranoid suspicion, but the example you give seems to exemplify it.

 

[catalog]

At history A level I remember doing an essay on Hitler which was about "intentionalism" vs "functionalism", like basically was it all his intention or did it happen cos everyone followed orders like eichmann said at the trial. Unfortunately I cannot remember my conclusion but I did get an A

 

[luka]

I just don't know about you Stan you might be a genius or you might be a Nazi

 

[luka]

I liked your definition of neoliberalism as capitalism reaching into our pants and private parts I thought that was truly brilliant

 

[catalog]

 

[luka]

that was really perceptive and profound

 

[vimothy]

when was that

 

[luka]

Earlier today.

 

[luka]

He's not not stupid he's really clever just mega inarticulate

 

[vimothy]

Earlier today.

that's no help is it

 

[vimothy]

were relying on you as official archivist to surface- if I can say that - the good bits of dissensus

 

[IdleRich]

I liked your definition of neoliberalism as capitalism reaching into our pants and private parts I thought that was truly brilliant

The invisible hand?

 

[luka]

I love Stan he's the best

 

[luka]

But he can't speak English. We need a translator

 

[vimothy]

The invisible hand?

the invisible hand grabbing your pussy, the image of modern capital

 

[constant escape]

the invisible hand grabbing your pussy, the image of modern capital

and reaching back up through you as if you were a puppet, possessed by your own conjuring.

"A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."