Clarissa's Blog

Why did communism fail? Because it couldn’t do the one thing that, according to its own theory, it had to achieve, which is to create a new type of human beings. It didn’t manage to become part of the subjectivation process. It remade countries, institutions, buildings, seas, forests, and so on. But it did not remake human beings. Marx said himself that unless human beings were remade, there was no hope. And they weren’t. So the whole experiment collapsed. Not before murdering millions, of course.

This is why I’m interested in how subjectivity is refashioned. This is at the bottom of everything. The inner architecture of human beings. And why some regimes can’t touch it while others have people pushing each other out of the way in their rush to change their sense of self.