We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUFor 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 BADIOUAll 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.
ALAIN BADIOULet us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUA 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 BADIOUI would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOUWe 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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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