Revolution at the Gates : Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

"A return to Marx may be acceptable today ... But a repetition of Lenin? ... Perhaps i ek's return to Lenin is merely tactical, figurative even. He can't be serious, can he? ... i ek claims that Lenin's act, 'his choice, ' continues to speak to those of us on the left today. Faced with our current conceptual deadlock, we must have the courage, the nerve, to risk isolation, self-annihilation even, in order to offer a real alternative to the false oppositions recuperated by and churned out for our consumption by the image industry of late capitalism ... The postmodernists and liberal multiculturalists, today's Bernsteins and Kautskys--our contemporary Plekhanovs and Martovs, beware!"--Bad Subjects