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interpellation

All totalizing systems that interpellate individual subjects to coincide strictly with their chosen role as social beings always "expulse" a certain residue

—p.58 Subscribing to the Imaginary Party: Notes on a Politics of Neo-Communism (50) by Andy Merrifield
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a brute force that doesn't need unmasking by anyone

[...] Do people around the world need Marx to reveal the root of their misery, to correct the illusions and lacunas of their vision of everyday reality? Don't they know this all too well themselves? Aren't they bludgeoned by a system that's all too obvious to them, that has absolutely no desire to …

—p.36 Living an Illusion: Beyond the Reality of Realism (24) by Andy Merrifield
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sundered

what Marxists like Hollowoy tell us has been sundered: addressing the ontological separation between the doing and the done

—p.37 Living an Illusion: Beyond the Reality of Realism (24) by Andy Merrifield
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interstice

Magical Marxism [...] lodges itself somewhere within the interstices of a liberated time and liberated space, between the right to free time and the right to free space

—p.23 Introduction: The Circulation of Revolt - Real and Fictitious Marxism (1) by Andy Merrifield
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the greatest bourgeois fantasy of all

[...] how much of the bourgeois order is based upon fantasy, upon a dream world in which ruling fantasies become true because those who rule really believe they're true, because they make these fantasies come true. Through active will and not a little force, the bourgeoisie turns its economic ple…

—p.15 Introduction: The Circulation of Revolt - Real and Fictitious Marxism (1) by Andy Merrifield