Background Image

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.

-Alain Badiou

Please Wait....
Translating....

We Know That Communism Is The Right

Alain Badiou

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.

Views: 10

Topic

More From Alain Badiou

Love Is Not A Contract Between Two Narcissists.

I Would Say, If You Like, That The Party Is Like An Out-moded Mathematics...that Is To Say, The Mathematics Of Euclid. We Need To Invent A Non-euclidian Mathematics With Respect To Political Discipline.

In Love, Fidelity Signifies This Extended Victory: The Randomness Of An Encounter Defeated Day After Day Through The Invention Of What Will Endure.

These Latter Institutions [the Civil Service, Trade Unions, Media Of All Kinds], Notably Of Course Television, But More Subtly The Written Press, Are Quite Spectacular Powers Of Unreason And Ignorance.

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.

Trending Author

Douglas Engelbart

Category