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

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To Believe That The Intolerable Crime Is

Alain Badiou

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

Men

Car

We Know That Communism Is The Right Hypothesis. 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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Democracy

Communism