Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOULet us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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