Because the appeal to democracy presupposes democracy is the solution to the problems of democracyj because it incorporates in advance any hope things might be otherwise as already the fundamental democratic promise and provision, it is a dead end for left politics. Entrapped by such an appeal, left and progressive contestation remains suspended between the discourse of the hysteric and the discourse of the university. Such suspension fails to break free of the continued workings of the discourse of the pervert as hysterical contestation afirms the position of the master. Moreover, the appeal to democracy remains unable to elaborate a convincing political alternative because it accepts the premise that we already know what is to be done-critique, discuss, include, and revise. Left reliance on democracy thus eschews responsibility not only for current failures (Look, democracy isn't perfect) but also for envisioning another politics in the future.
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