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Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou

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Is There a Middle Ground Between Communism and History?

In summary, everybody has a choice to either accept or reject communism. And there's not a middle ground, just like you have a choice to accept, be complicit with or reject capitalism. So the idea itself represents it's so there's three parts to the idea. This is getting into his little definition thing. It is historical in that it keeps appearing. The French Revolution, the peoples were in China, the Russian Revolution,. They're all aimed at a political truth which is emancipation.

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