Lenin-style: on the possibilities. And boundaries of the performative discourse

The study proposes phenomenological, hermeneutic, psychoanalytical (linguistic psychoanalysis by J. Lacan) analysis of the performative discourse Lenin-style. The style is an aesthetic dimension of the performative discourse. The performative characterizes the content of the statement-to-action, while the style is its form. The mass is subjectless, inert (the presupposed subject), the symbolic Other (subject) is the carrier of appeals, prescriptions, slogans, mottos, etc. The part of the desire of the mass is symbolized by the means of the performative discourse Lenin-style and becomes the avant-garde revolutionary mass, while the other part is constellated in pre-symbolic existence. The complete desire is curtailed by the revolutionary performative, which is symbolic, that turns the mass into some semblance of essence known as the subject and the pre-symbolic remainder forms the symptom of the obsession with material possessions, i.e. robberies, violence, the seizure of property, all that the revolutionary excesses of French, Russian, and other revolutions are overfilled with.