Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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