Zizek: "A Plea for Leninist Intolerance"

The quote in the header of this blog comes from the article by Savoj Zizek with the title above. Again:

"Lenin's obsessive tirades against formal 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 point is precisely to maintain the possibility of a true choice. Formal freedom is the freedom of choice within the coordinates of the existing power relations, while actual freedom designates the site of an intervention that undermines these very coordinates."

Why I chose this quote for the header is twofold, though there is only one reason. It says something true to me about the distinction between formal and actual freedom; while I comprehend Lenin, and in turn Zizek, experienced the distinction at some point as a core truth to which obviously they demonstrate allegiance. So I was enlisted in that allegiance. Second, not actually second, I experience that the action of allegiance is in the intervention, that being actual freedom and the only real freedom - the site is now.

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