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Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou

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Is There a Commitment to Emancipation?

I don't think so at all. I mean, he's very expressed about the fact that you can't know in advance what kinds of emancipation that you're going to be committed to. And if you establish that in advance by saying this is what we're trying to achieve, you're already concluding the contingency and the creative kind of energies that are supposed to be. Yeah, but then you don't have an idea of communism. They had an idea that they wanted the possibility of possible new possibilities. That occurs when the event appears, and then you choose to show fidelity to it.That's when you become a kind of political agent that's engaged in social transformation.

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