Reflexive Impotence Immobilization and Liberal Communism

Rhee: Fisher says that British students are less radical than their French counterparts because of their, what he calls their reflexive impotence. This is instead for Fisher, a consequence of the effects of late capitalism on these young minds, Rhee writes. So in many cases, there's a kind of classist implication here where students who are obviously going to be less affluent would be attracted and seen as guinea pigs more than anything else," she adds. "It seems like a strange kind of disavowal of that fact"