[Marxism] Slavo Zizek on Obama Victory: "Use your illusions"

[Aaron Aarons]

At 18:51 -0500 2008/11/18, Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
>Here, for example, is Zizek on Lenin and Lacan in the same breath:
>
>"So, to put it in the Leninist way: what the 'human rights of Third
>World suffering victims' effectively means today, in the predominant
>discourse, is the right of Western powers themselves to intervene
>politically, economically, culturally and militarily in the Third
>World countries of their choice, in the name of defending human
>rights.

This part is clear, and clearly true.

>The reference to Lacan's formula of communication (in which
>the sender gets his own message back from the receiver-addressee in
>its inverted, i.e. true, form) is very much to the point here. In the
>reigning discourse of humanitarian interventionism, the developed West
>is effectively getting back from the victimized Third World its own
>message in its true form."

Can somebody translate this last sentence? English preferred, but Spanish, French, Portuguese or Latin will do.

><http://libcom.org/library/against-human-rights-zizek>
>
>Notice that this is a very cogent anti-Eustonite position.

Although I have been to Euston Station and walked along Euston Road, I have no idea what an "anti-Eustonite position" might be!

 - Aaron

>There is no
>reason to sneer at Zizek. If he uses ideas from Lacan (as above) in
>the support of a clear Marxist/Leninist position, all power to him!