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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Alain Badiou

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Communism Hypothesis Know Right
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
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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Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
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’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work

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