I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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