tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post9119694664478880331..comments2024-03-19T09:03:35.497-07:00Comments on Democracy and Class Struggle: Alain Badiou on HardtalkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-90810231573317891742009-03-29T03:55:00.000-07:002009-03-29T03:55:00.000-07:00Thanks for your postBadiou creates the intellectua...Thanks for your post<BR/><BR/>Badiou creates the intellectual space in which communism can be discussed rather than dismissed.<BR/><BR/>I particlarly like his final comment on the 1840's where the communist movement preceded Marxism in people like Weitling and how Marx spend his entire life integrating the communist idea with practical struggles - what we need to do today is clarify communism andnickglaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880536147559732867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-19246798979098488582009-03-29T00:29:00.000-07:002009-03-29T00:29:00.000-07:00So Badiou's poetic analogy of the existing coordin...So Badiou's poetic analogy of the existing coordinates of power is that of a film, an illusion perpetuated as real, now demonstrated as such in the "Event" of the financial crisis. A "Truth" emerges in the minds of the spectators who reside not in the gated communities of the elite protagonists of the film (the literal and class bound gated communities); in the minds of those who are the victims Stephen Mauldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13762197933555699379noreply@blogger.com