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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Alain Badiou

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
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
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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Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
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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End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
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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Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
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
What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
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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Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
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
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
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point

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