We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUIn my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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