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Reading Ranciere’s explanation of the Marxian notion of ideology makes me understand how much Žižek is right

Politics is justice above good: it is just that all people can participate to politics (Aristotle), whether it be, or result in, a good or a bad thing

“L’universel [en politique] y est toujours en jeu singulièrement, sous la forme de cas où son existence et sa pertinence sont en litige.”

To understand an order, you need to be the equal of the one who is giving it to you, but the order implies the opposite is true. Aristotle said the slave only had the capacity to understand, to receive language, not to speak it. Hence two senses of “understanding”.

Process of subjectivation: Jeanne Deroin is candidate for the 1849 legislative elections, but she can’t run (because she’s a woman). Her “running”, by itself, exposes both the inner contradiction of the Republican universality (universality by position of an exception: masculine logic), and the split it inscribes in the feminine