Levica/desnica: nadzorovanje političnega prostora

The author first investigates into when, where, and how the Left/Right division appeared in the French revolution. He defines the Left by a division of the political space into two exclusive entities, or hostile camps. He exemplifies the invention of this kind of political division discussing the political and social imaginary of Robespierre and Saint-Just, Sieyés and Marx and En-gels. Finally, he offers an interpretation of the Left/Right division as an invention which made possible the surveillance over the political space. He argues the Left lacks autonomous identity, presuposes a fixed point of reference and implies an external observer. So it can structurally not exclude a loss of conscience - and its replacement by (class-) consciousness - and a separation of politics from morals.V prvem delu razprave je precizirano, kdaj, kje in kako se je v francoski revoluciji uveljavila delitev na levico in desnico. Levica je definirana z delitvijo političnega prostora v nasprotni in izključujoči se entiteti, med katerima ni posredovanj. V drugem delu razprave je oblikovanje take delitve političnega prostora ponazorjeno z intervencijami Robespierra in Saint-Justa, Sieyé-sa ter Marxa in Engelsa. V sklepnem delu je delitev na levico in desnico interpretirana kot vzpostavitev nadzorovanja političnega prostora. Pozicija levice nima avtonomne identitete, predpostavlja fiksno referenčno točko in implicira zunanjega opazovalca. Strukturno vsebuje pogoj možnosti za izrinjenje vesti z (razredno) zavestjo in ločitev politike od morale