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Subject: That Lovable Zizek Guy

by ...............(^_^).............. Sunday, Mar. 03, 2002 at 9:20 PM

>The catch was that it was prohibited to state clearly that he was the boss.

Subject: That Lovable Zizek Guy



>BS: You describe the internal structure of anarchist groups as being

>authoritarian. Yet, the model popular with younger activists today is

>explicitly anti-hierarchical and consensus-oriented. Do you think

>there's something furtively authoritarian about such apparently

>freewheeling structures?

>Zizek: Absolutely. And I'm not bluffing here; I'm talking from

>personal experience. Maybe my experience is too narrow, but it's not

>limited to some mysterious Balkan region. I have contacts in England,

>France, Germany, and more - and all the time, beneath the mask of

>this consensus, there was one person accepted by some unwritten rules

>as the secret master. The totalitarianism was absolute in the sense

>that people pretended that they were equal, but they all obeyed him.

>The catch was that it was prohibited to state clearly that he was the

>boss. You had to fake some kind of equality. The real state of

>affairs couldn't be articulated. Which is why I'm deeply distrustful

>of this "let's just coordinate this in an egalitarian fashion." I'm

>more of a pessimist. In order to safeguard this equality, you have a

>more sinister figure of the master, who puts pressure on the others

>to safeguard the purity of the non-hierarchic principle. This is not

>just theory. I would be happy to hear of groups that are not caught

>in this strange dialectic.

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