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So you do get back round to the democratic process, after all. We can and should consider, categorise, and rectify everything that explains why the first attempts to realise it went through very important crises.
In Praise of Love Quotes
What happens in the domain of mathematics does not apply ipso facto to society. The existence of mass movements and a vast favourable public opinion is a necessary condition for the possibility of a new communist political vision securing victories. The task is to bring up to date the four fundamental principles of communist society: I will not cast the first stone.
I will wait and see if it brings real fruits, and whether that contributes to regenerating the communist hypothesis elogf making it once again possible for this hypothesis to have its own independent organisation, its own popular force. I am more of a democrat than you are. Return to Book Page. Philippe Douroux 20 December And not only colonialism! Before we rush to address the question of the means, we have to begin by re-establishing the legitimacy of the problem, the relevance of the hypothesis.
For Badiou, whenever we count the dead of the Gulag or the Cultural Revolution we also have to count the dead of capitalism from colonialism to the world wars. Of course they are… LJ: The property question is just one among others. We have topolitics: Alain Badiou, what are the principles of communist society, such as you conceive it?
Badiou: ”Lovprisning af kærligheden”/”Eloge de l’amour”
Why not mention, among a thousand other truly astonishing episodes, the case of the port of Shanghai, paralysed by previous struggles, which got set running again when it was taken over by an absolutely novel, practical alliance between the students and workers? I would call them profound disagreements over how society is organised.
What you said is not false.
I will tell you, I am deeply shocked by what you have to say about it. Laurent Joffrin and Alain Badiou, November 6 But we badiuo still defend this period by maintaining that in the last analysis, despite everything, it allowed the establishment of a freer society.
But the world to which badoiu that leads is totally unjust, if you consider how things ought to be: That would make me like him more… AB: It is important for elog poor as for the rich. We need only compare West Germany and East Germany to recognise that the former was more economically successful than the latter, and notably for workers. The Robespierrians wanted to continue the experiment to bring about the emergence of a “new man,” which is madness.
You defend the “communist hypothesis. And in what sense do the dead of colonialism balance out the dead of communism? It is recognised that this collectivisation anour in a catastrophe, between 10 and 30 million dead. So what is the path to realising it?
Éloge de l’amour (English)
Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Even within the last century there was the incredible slaughter of two world wars. When private property was abolished, we saw an even more violent destruction of natural resources. The society that the Maoist Red Guards advocated was based on terror and oppression. Let me just say, you are telling the history of the Cultural Revolution like some little provincial viscount would badiiou told the history of the French Revolution!
Eloge De L’Amour FL
For Joffrin, this comparison is a fallacy. Historically, democratic socialism has reformed capitalism while maintaining a constitutional order that guarantees individual freedoms.
That distinction is fine by me. In your book you once again defend the Chinese Cultural Revolution launched by Mao in No one wants to commit to pursuing what has already failed! And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In the world, there are 2 billion people who count for precisely nothing and roam in search of the very possibility of living.
Don’t have an account? It is the condition of the struggle itself.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Even that is very doubtful.
We do not know, for there are periods of doubt, moments badou history when the question of what means are necessary remains obscure. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power.
You condemn the means that were employed in the communist experience. It is not anecdotal, it is the symbol wloge the Cultural Revolution, which claimed around a million dead…. Plato, conversely, first of all tried to define a just society, and only subsequently concerned himself with the means that would be required to get there.
They were tried in public squares, beaten to death or dispatched to the Gobi Desert and elsewhere.