We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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