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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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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
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
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
It must on the contrary be named.
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Contrary Must Name
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
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
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
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat
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
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
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength

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