Daly, G. (2011) Les avatars du Communisme. In: Badiou, A. and Zizek, S. (eds.) L'idée du Communisme, II: Conférence de Berlin, 2010. Paris: Lignes. 9782355260742. pp. 23-54.
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Abstract:
Badiou affirms that communism is the right hypothesis. Capitalism privatizes property and places it in the hands of a privileged social class. Socialism centralizes property and places it in the hands of an equally privileged politico-technocratic class. Only communism seeks to dissolve the structure and the very meaning of property itself. Yet, if communism is the right hypothesis, this does not imply any inevitability. Communism is not the ‘truly human society’ that is simply waiting to be realized. Communism remains a pure speculation, a crazy wager, that seeks to think human differences in terms of an uncompromising, and ‘unnatural’, universal equality. In this sense, it is not simply concerned with saving humanity but remaking humanity along different lines. This chapter explores some of the political and socio-economic dimensions that are central to re-thinking the nature of, and the connection between, communism and humanity
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Communism, democracy, subversion, the political
Subjects:
Creators:
Daly, G.
Editors:
Badiou, A. and Zizek, S.
Publisher:
Lignes
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Date:
March 2011
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 23-54
Title of Book:
L'idée du Communisme, II: Conférence de Berlin, 2010
Series Name:
Lidée du Communisme
Volume:
2
Event Title:
L’Idée du Communisme, II
Event Dates:
25 - 27 June 2010
Place of Publication:
Paris
Event Location:
Berlin
Event Type:
Conference
Number of Pages:
350
Language:
French
ISBN:
9782355260742
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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