There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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