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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Alain Badiou

Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOU

Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
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
ALAIN BADIOU

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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
Without mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOU

Blind Mathematics
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU

Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOU

After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Basis Completely Explain Homological Ideology Impossible Maintain Real Relation Story Suppose
We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOU

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.
ALAIN BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory

Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

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