And I never wrote about apparatchiks taking control of the levers.

Representatives of the proletariat do it, and thereby effectively redistribute the wealth.

The reason why Marxists I named aren't proscriptive is because they see no point in proscribing another system. But Zizek is proscriptive about a great many other things. From Darfur to the Balkans and a great many other situations, he has ventured into political proposals.

What do you mean by analyzing? It sounds like another one of these theory/practice divides that we're laboring under in this diary.

"Applied Marxism?"