"I am trying to construct conceptual tools for us to bear this weird moment, where, what comes to the public domain of very complicated struggles today, might not really represent the actual struggle that goes on, without having to concede too much to what I believe to be a bit more conservative position, [...] it's a classic like 'Kojevian' position. Kojeve was the guy, when May '68 happened, who took up the phone and he asked if anybody was dead. They said 'nobody was dead'. And he said 'So it's not a revolution.'

There is this real-politic idea of 'I know the hardships, the young people don't know, let's wait for them to learn it. And I find that if we are not careful it can be condescending. [...] And we don't need that."

From:
New Theoretical Directions in Psychoanalysis - Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Patricia Gherovic
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