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The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou

The Communist Hypothesis

By Alain Badiou
Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran

By Alain Badiou
Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran

By Alain Badiou
Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran

By Alain Badiou
Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran

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Category: Philosophy | Politics

Category: Philosophy | Politics

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May 12, 2015 | 224 Pages

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May 12, 2015 | 288 Pages

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    About The Communist Hypothesis

    “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

    Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.

    About The Communist Hypothesis

    “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 

    Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.

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    Also by Alain Badiou

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    Pocket Pantheon
    Philosophy for Militants
    The Age of the Poets
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    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy | Politics

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Verso
    May 12, 2015 | 224 Pages | 5 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781781688700

    Category: Philosophy | Politics

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    May 12, 2015 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781781689424

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    “A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj Žižek

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    “Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

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