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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.

Alain Badiou

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
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
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
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
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
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.
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Art Basis Completely Explain Homological Ideology Impossible Maintain Real Relation Story Suppose
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
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
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
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
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
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
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.
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Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
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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Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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
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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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 say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse

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