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Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou

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Are You Waiting, Is That Kind of a Vague?

I feel like with this thing, the event, it kind of feels what you're saying is like an all or nothing. There's not there's not a reformism in there. It's you're committed to the event. The event is unpredictable. We don't know when it'll happen. But us academic philosophers in institutions just have to wait for it to happen and we'll know it when we see it. I share the sentiment that it seems a little bit abstract, but now the way you just said it there almost makes it seem pseudo religious too. So I don't know.

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