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01/25/12

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On FULL COMMUNISM-
cursory notes on the evolution of a memetic non-demand.


You hear it everywhere, these days, if you walk within a certain activist milieu. It’s a token demand, a given. FULL COMMUNISM- I wouldn’t get out of bed for anything less. It’s a joke, a dumb joke. It’s a communist meme. Like all good memes, it’s pretty much devoid of meaning, in terms of content. But its use denotes something else– a Zizekian uber-demand, a demand which goes beyond. FULL COMMUNISM is both a lack, in a very real sense, but also a pointed lack, its very meaninglessness a cry for meaning.

On the fascinating UK ultraleft meme economy.

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    I really don’t think full communism is a meaningless anti-demand or reducible to this sort of joke. Radicals (I think...
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