Emancipatory Politics Always Consists In Making Seem

The Absolute Contingency Of The Encounter Takes On The Appearance Of Destiny. 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.

Love Without Risk Is An Impossibility, Like War Without Death.

Let Us Say In Passing That Since (philosophical) Remedies Are Often Worse Than The Malady, Our Age, 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.

I Am Surprised To See That Today Everything That Does Not Amount To Surrender Pure And Simple To Generalized Capitalism, Let Us Call It Thus, Is Considered To Be Archaic Or Old-fashioned, As Though In A Way There Existed No Other Definition Of What It Means To Be Modern Than, Quite Simply, To Be At All Times Caught In The Dominant Forms Of The Moment.

Love And Politics Are The Two Great Figures Of Social Engagement. Politics Is Enthusiasm With A Collective; With Love, Two People. So Love Is The Minimal Form Of Communism.