
A Signifier for the Left
Why Theory
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The Impossibility of the Communist Party
"I suspect the rejoinder would be that the very impossibility of it is is its appeal is its appeal like do the impossible," he says. "It's tied to the belief that we can do the impossible which i accept so it's weird, I think you're right there's different categories of the impossible there's the really impossible and there's just the symbolically impossibleright"? He adds: "There's a point external to the symbolic that shows that it in fact is possible."
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