when the Master loses his authority and becomes hystericised (after his authority is questioned, experienced as fake), … authority reappears but is now displaced, de-subjectivised, in the guise of the authority of neutral expert-knowledge (‘it’s not me who exerts power, I just state objective facts and/or knowledge’). … ‘The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that it is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.’ Is this remark by Kafka not the most succinct definition of what went wrong in the communist states of the twentieth century?

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