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Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou

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The Idea of Communism

The idea of communism is important because what we seem to have is capitalism, which itself claims to be the only way forward. And yet in the history of capitalism, we've seen these enormous gulfs of inequality arise and concentration of wealth. So there's a certain idea here, the idea of communism that can repair the sort of fractured solidarity of the human race.

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