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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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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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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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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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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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