What Mr Zizek's "authoritarian capitalism" has in common with its 19th century predecessor is an intriguing subject. But, would Gladstone or Disraeli or Bismark or Buffet have declared for a "New Socialist Countryside" or have promoted a "socialism with [british, german, french, etc] characteristics?" Would they have sanctioned the organizing of their industrial workers into national trade unions? Or countenanced the official study of Marxism? Lenin's NEP is probably a whole lot closer to the author's "authoritarian" or "state" capitalism, and Lenin himself would have been deeply flattered by the phrase, as it would have meant that Russia, largely a nation …
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