Without mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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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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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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 must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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