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Ethical Socialism? No, Thanks!

The first thing that strikes the eye in Boucher's text is its unabashed Kantianism, rarely encountered among psychoanalytically oriented social critics. His main reproach to me can be condensed into the accusation that I commit myself to a pre-critical "transcendental illusion" of applying a regulative idea directly to reality, with the expected political consequence of sustaining messianic terrorism (the link between the illegitimate step into the noumenal and political terror is also already critically established in Kant). The list is familiar to everyone acquainted with Kant, and, especially, the Kantian critique of German Idealism: I rehabilitate the Romantic idealist-obscurantist monster...