It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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