{E}galitarian political 'extremism' or 'excessive radicalism' should always be read as a phenomenon of ideologico-political displacement: as an index of its opposite, of a limitation, of a refusal actually to 'go to the end.' What was the Jacobins' recourse to radical 'terror' if not a kind of hysterical acting-out bearing witness to their inability to disturb the very fundamentals of economic order {private property, and so on}? And does the same not go even for the so-called 'excesses' of Political Correctness? Do they also not display a retreat from disturbing the systemic {economic, etc.} causes of racism and sexism?
( Slavoj Žižek )
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