Fundamentally we never know what we are doing. …I fight..against visions that somehow in communism private life will be better. Who knows?

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If you don’t feel guilty you don’t really enjoy it. You have to add guilt to pleasure to really enjoy it.

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All he promises to Germans is suffering: “Do you want a war that will be so total that you cannot even imagine how much you will suffer?”

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all these stupid metaphors like “our conscious ego is just like the tip of the iceberg.” No, the unconscious is purely phenomenal for Freud.

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Today, all our main terms we use…are false terms - “war on terror”, “democracy and freedom”, “human rights”, etc. etc. are false terms, mystifying our perception of the situation instead of allowing us to think it. Our “freedoms” themselves serve to mask…our deeper unfreedom.

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the true step beyond racism is not to change language, but even to use the same language but in a different, ironic, non-racist way.

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I doubt you can have real contact with another person without a small exchange of obscenities.

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my secret hope is that there is a certain strata of people who are not just looking for jokes

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/945216308500680705 http://ift.tt/2FQ4SSD

publishers put pressure on me to write a best seller on Donald Trump. Why should I? He’s not interesting as a person; he’s a boring idiot

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/944852662734000129 http://ift.tt/2mCmzw0

Hegel is “the most sublime of all hysterics”: …only hysteria produces..knowledge in contrast to University discourse, which..reproduces it

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/944496569981767680 http://ift.tt/2mBifwT

Insofar as philosophy is a case of Master’s discourse, psychoanalysis acts as the agent of its..hystericization. (Incontinence of the Void)

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/944129144002154496 http://ift.tt/2FBRaCv

The early Bolsheviks..were not able to perceive in the Stalinist terror the ultimate offspring of their own acts.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/943764240854380544 http://ift.tt/2mAGCM1

The early Bolsheviks would have been shocked at what the Soviet Union had turned into by the 1930s (..many of those..were..liquidated..)

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/943408144646098944 http://ift.tt/2moaOJy

The true courage is not to imagine an alternative but to accept the consequences of the fact that there’s no clearly discernible alternative

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/943041977611939841 http://ift.tt/2qZGniy

the dream of an alternative…functions as a fetish that prevents us thinking through to the end the deadlock of our predicament.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/942682124372578304 http://ift.tt/2EuqzWQ

[Today] even the most pessimistic diagnosis finishes with an uplifting hint at some version of the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/942319722363793409 http://ift.tt/2mlXRAD

Agamben said in an interview “thought is the courage of hopelessness” ─ an insight that is especially pertinent for our historical moment.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/941956133069180928 http://ift.tt/2Eny41w

There are those who out of the frustration of their desire for the West turn towards (self-)destructive nihilism

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/941591172883066880 http://ift.tt/2D6vDRF

The..voice of truth cannot but appear as ‘irrational’ in its lack of consideration for the opinions of others, in its refusal of..compromise

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To repeat Lenin is to repeat not what Lenin did but what he failed to do, his missed opportunities, what is in Lenin more than Lenin himself

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[With WWI a world disappeared including the socialist movement]. Born in this moment..Lenin..was able to discern the..chance for revolution.

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This does not mean to return to Lenin. To repeat Lenin is to accept that “Lenin is dead”.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/940140366807879681 http://ift.tt/2EOQUjl

Lenin was the..one to articulate the truth of the catastropy [of 1914 in which an entire world disappeared including the socialist movement]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/939783005584920576 http://ift.tt/2CxB4va

1914:…an entire world disappeared: not only the idyllic bourgeois faith in progress, but also the socialist movement that accompanied it.

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