{"id":10646,"date":"2013-03-13T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2013-03-13T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:04:56","slug":"dean-communist-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/03\/13\/dean-communist-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"dean communist horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jodi Dean interview on 13 Oct. 2012 here<\/a><\/p>\n

In \u017di\u017eek\u2019s account, ideology is not a matter of what we know but what we do. So \u201cfalse consciousness\u201d isn\u2019t the problem. The problem is what you\u2019re doing, and how your actions repeat. We all know capitalism is a system that exploits the many for the benefit of the very few, and yet we continue in it. It\u2019s not like we are deluded about it. Our contemporary problem is not that we are unaware that capitalism is unjust and wrecking the lives of billions. The problem is that we either don\u2019t have the will to get out, or aren\u2019t quite sure how to do so. It\u2019s not a matter of changing people\u2019s minds. It\u2019s about changing their actions.<\/p>\n

We need to ask ourselves: What is the attachment to democracy<\/span>? What does that mean in left-wing discussions these days? I think it\u2019s a failure of will, and even an attachment to the form of our subjection. Why do we keep arguing in terms of democracy<\/span> when we live in a democracy<\/span> that is the source of unbelievable inequality and capitalist exploitation? Why are we so attached to this? It makes no sense<\/strong>. Of course, it\u2019s not like we should have a system where nobody votes.<\/p>\n

The most fundamental things\u2014namely, control over the economy\u2014should be for the common, in the name of the common, and by the common (without being determined by something like voting).<\/strong> It should be known that there is no private property. Everything we own and produce is for the common good, and that is not up for grabs, it is a condition for the possibility of democracy<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t itself be subject to democracy<\/span>, the same way that any kind of revolutionary moment or transition to communism can\u2019t be understood as a democratic<\/span> move. If we can get twenty percent of the people, we could do it. But it\u2019s not democratic<\/span>. Eighty percent of people don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Badiou is brilliant when he asks, \u201cWhy are people so intrigued by the so-called \u2018independent voters?\u2019 Why are people without a political opinion even allowed to decide, when they don\u2019t even care?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jodi Dean interview on 13 Oct. 2012 here In \u017di\u017eek\u2019s account, ideology is not a matter of what we know but what we do. So \u201cfalse consciousness\u201d isn\u2019t the problem. The problem is what you\u2019re doing, and how your actions repeat. We all know capitalism is a system that exploits the many for the benefit … Continue reading “dean communist horizon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,20],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou","category-zizek","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10647,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}