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Monument for Transformation
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What is to be Done?
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On The Idea of Communism – Evangelist Zizek and the End of Philosophy
Badiou agree with Negri’s formulation that for this reason socialism (which is a statist imaginary) can only be replaced by communism which is radically anti-state. However, Zizek struck a pragmatist note here to argue with Badiou and Judith Balso as to what, operationally, this ‘at a distance’ can possibly mean and how this is a pathetic anarchist recipe for marginality. | Zizek proclaimed that if there is one good thing about capitalism, it is that ‘Mother Earth no longer exists’ – amidst a slightly emabrassed applause from the audience. “We must remain resolutely modern” he further proclaimed.
http://kafila.org/2009/03/16/evangelist-st-zizek-and-the-end-of-philosophy-ii/
On The Idea of Communism – Birbeck College, London – March 2009
The key reference points for Badiou’s anti-statist version of communism are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Jacobins and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He rejects the idea – fundamental to Marx – that the economic and the political are indivisible.
http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=99