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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...[[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the truly radical [[thing]] would have been to focus precisely on the disturbing choices: to ...mal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask whom a freedom under consideration serves, his
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...[[ideological]] [[belief]] that the US are bringing to [[other]] nations [[democracy]] and prosperity. And it seems as if these three "[[real]]" reasons are the ...ch lower level of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To
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• You May
  ...[[government]] [[agency]] is involved in a plot against [[freedom]] and [[democracy]]. Believing there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as be ...t one is loved by others and capable of creative achievements, but a more 'radical', pseudo-[[Freudian]] procedure of regressing back to the scene of the prim
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...es, annoys, disturbs, traumatizes us (subjects): the object is at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things. <a name=" ...tive deadlock (how, in what order, to tell the story), thus signals a more radical deadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[[liberal]] stance is unable to trespass - [[witness]] the uneasiness of "radical" [[post-colonialism|post-colonialist]] Afro-American studies apropos of [[F ...open up the perspective of freedom to the Iraqi people ([[Western liberal democracy]], guarantee of [[private property]], the inclusion into the [[global marke
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• Move the Underground!
  ...homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus prima ...mes which do not reflect what America stands and fights for, the values of democracy, [[freedom]] and personal dignity. And, effectively, the very fact that the
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...erverse]] "totalitarian" twist, this [[identification]] is constitutive of democracy as such.<br><br> ...mbodies the All, i.e., which are all "minoritarian," while, in [[Europe]], democracy traditionally referred to the rule of the One-People. However, Milner draw
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the standard liberal attitude: no, one should NO ...unction to engage in more and more "daring" forms of sexuality... In some "radical" circles in the US, there came recently a proposal to "rethink" the rights
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...in Iraq, and that the attack on Iraq is probably conceived as a much more radical [[preemptive strike]] - not against Saddam, but against the main contender ...y said this was going to be pretty." This is how, today, the First World [[democracy]] more and more functions: by way of "outsourcing" its dirty underside to o
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce seriously as a THEORETICO-POLITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see ...European from a [[Communist]] country who longs for Western [[liberal]] [[democracy]] and some consumer goods.<br><br>
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...tate [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts," <tt><b><a name="4x"></a><a href=" ...the production of [[society]] itself. The way is thus open for "absolute democracy," for the producers directly regulating their social relations without even
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...ïve benevolent [[agent]] who sincerely wants to bring to the Vietnamese [[democracy]] and Western freedom - it is just that his intentions totally misfire, or, ...sal policeman endeavoring to control the [[threats]] to peace, freedom and democracy all around the globe, lost control of a part of the metropolis itself: for
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...ou a broken kettle… Does the same inconsistency not characterize the way radical Islamists respond to the holocaust? (1) Holocaust did not happen. (2) It di ...nst it!”<ref>There is a deeper problem here, which concerns modern State democracy as such: is it not that the democratic abstraction (“all people independe
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...sexual and her emotional life. Biogenetic manipulation opens up much more radical perspectives. It may [[retroactively]] change our [[understanding]] of ours ...ot, to take note of the dark obverse of his idealised [[image]] of liberal democracy. All of a sudden, he has been compelled to confront the prospect of corpora
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...of the triumphant onslaught of global capitalism and its notion of liberal democracy. The true [[message]] of the notion of the Third Way is that there is no Se
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...masturbating on stage, the sculptor displaying [[human]] excrement? Some radical circles in the [[United States]] recently proposed that we rethink the righ ...rights]] to include [[torture]] and a permanent [[emergency state]], if [[democracy]] is cleansed of its [[populist]] “[[excess]]es.”
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...Far East situation (what will [[China]] develop into with [[regard]] to [[democracy]]?); 3) the gap between the rich North and poor South; and 4) the oncoming ...l dynamic that sustains the [[First World]]’s [[role]] as exporters of [[democracy]] and guardians of [[universal]] [[human rights]].
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...levels of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of “bringing [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to [[Iraq]],” but of simply getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Sad ...he old story [[repeat]] itself in [[Iraq]]? America brings new hope and [[democracy]] to people, but instead of hailing the U.S. [[Army]], the ungrateful peopl
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...e]], his point is precisely to maintain the possibility of the <i>true</i> radical choice. This is what the [[distinction]] between “formal” and “actual ...f the answer is no, it is of secondary importance if we have parliamentary democracy and freedom of individual choices.<br><br>
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...rder — not because these reports were "exaggerated," but for a much more radical [[reason]]. [[Jacques Lacan]] claimed that, even if the [[patient]]'s wife ...s]] [[knows]] no [[negation]]: The official ([[Christianity|Christian]], [[democracy|democratic]]...) [[discourse]] is accompanied and sustained by a [[whole]]
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