Is politics getting angry? Look at yourself first

If there's anything safe, then I'm not a Marxist myself.” Carl Marx himself said that. I like self-recognition. I love the poetry of the Communist Manifest. I like that he was a seer, a prophet to what we call globalization today. I like Marks to realize that there is no realm of our lives, public or private, in which capital does not interfere, and that there can be no compromise on this. He's the great thinker of us today, but in recent years I've changed my mind if he's the most important.

If I want to read someone whose work explains what's happening now, which is confusing and radical, that's Sigmund Freud. It is his work that often explains things that I would not know are happening around me. I have not given up Carl, but Ziggy [Siggy, the shorter name of Freud] hits me like the person of the moment as the thinker reinforces the way we see ourselves. You don't read Freud to make sure, but if you want something deep and brilliant, you've got the right author.

Reading Freud is beginning to see what is the concept of what is a modern person. Modernity, if anything, implies a certain understanding of the process through which we make ourselves who we are: self-reflectation. For Marx, reflection leads to the inevitable class. But the working class is a constant disappointment to the left because you do not know yourself as a class or do what they say. This, we're told, is the fault of the media, the centrist politicians and the BBC, but it's actually global phenomenon. Freud actually realized that this meant being an authoritarian person.

He saw rationality as scales; beneath it we are a measure of push and contradiction. We are unaware of ourselves, disobedient even. Freud, of course, had his faults. He invented a science based on men's conversation about women's lives. But look at what he taught us. narcissism. They were in shock. Nostalgia. How patriarchal laws function unconsciously.

Look at the current policy, now based on “the return of control”. Freud warned that homesickness was a liquefaction for something he never was, melancholin. As a Jew, his feeling as a child is like that of a stranger in need of being assimilated.

Feminism is also a movement about not being allowed, or being raw, to assimilate into patriarchal society. Anyone who reads the famous case of Freud, Dora will see a young woman who will not play it, who refused to become the object of the exchange of powerful men who found a voice. She was an ancestor of the movement #MeToo.

It's Freud who gives voice to things that we don't feel comfortable talking about: children's sexuality, perverts, fetishing and violence of love.

For all his black spots he didn't see the rise of antisemitism around him, and he feared that the Catholic church would crucify Freud was capable of looking into bourgeoise society and saying: what you think is rational depends on the incentives that you cannot fully control. He said even women can covet power, if not the penises, of men.

He said dreams matter, mistakes matter, everything matters.

The remaining supporters and several American Democrats operate with overextended Marxist notions of false conscience. This shows that if people have the right facts, they will also think about the right things. The Momentum seeks to awaken people under a true version of socialism, often feeding someone who is luring for authority, except for a more gray and pleasant kind. Jeremy Corbin, maybe?

Emotions are based on it, not just class positions. Freud realized that. When I met politicians, I often thought of them as the most irresponsible people I've ever known. Isn't it part of a good leader to examine his drives, ego, daily neurosis, possibilities for change, so I don't repeat past patterns, or at least to recognize them? No. Of course not.

Freud as a self-help stone killed Revolutionary Freud. But he is, so let's go back to him. I've changed my mind about him because he changes your mind. We live in a time when the oppressed have returned. And it's dark, very dark. If you want new policy, then examine and change your mind. This is where it all starts.

The Periscope.

* The bull is adapted from the editorial