Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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