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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.

Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
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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After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Change Democracy Improve Ironical Necessary Order People Propose
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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Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
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
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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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
It must on the contrary be named.
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Contrary Must Name
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Art Basis Completely Explain Homological Ideology Impossible Maintain Real Relation Story Suppose
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse

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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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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