Juhuuu!
Mein Buch ist raus!
In ideologischen Zeiten noch wichtiger!

/// Grenze - Tod - Ideologie ///
Mit Paulus, #Levinas und #Badiou zur Erfahrung der Grenzüberschreitung

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Tipp: den Hegelteil überblättern, den Levinas-Teil genießen, sich über die Kirchenväter wundern und die Märtyrerstories am Ende verschlingen
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The now-ratty ol' keffiyeh that has followed me 'round for two decades of pro-Palestine organizing; & a couple o' books that has too.

("Ratty" as the keffiyeh's gotten, I can assure you the whole time I've nonetheless been & I remain a wolf).

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#freepalestine #badiou #fursuit #wolf

"Entendemos por #nihilismo la ruptura de la figura tradicional del vínculo, la desvinculación como forma de ser de todo lo que tiene apariencia de vínculo"

A. #Badiou

“Generic #Communism designates a #free #associative #egalitarian #society where the activity of #polymorph #workers is not governed by regulations and technical or social articulations but is managed by the #collective power of #needs. In such a society, the #State is dissolved as a separate instance from public coercion. #Politics – much as it voices the interests of social groups and covets at the conquest of power – is de facto dissolved.

• Alain #Badiou - Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of #Democracy (https://www.lacan.com/conceptsym.htm)

The second sequence of the #communist hypothesis runs from 1917 to 1976:
from the #Bolshevik #Revolution to the end of the Cultural Revolution and
the militant upsurge throughout the world during the years 1966-75. It
was dominated by the question: how to win? How to hold out—unlike the
Paris Commune—against the armed reaction of the possessing classes; how
to organize the new power so as to protect it against the onslaught of
its enemies? It was no longer a question of formulating and testing the
communist hypothesis, but of realizing it: what the 19th century had
dreamt, the 20th would accomplish. The obsession with victory, centred
around questions of organization, found its principal expression in the
‘iron discipline’ of the communist party—the characteristic construction
of the second sequence of the hypothesis. The #party effectively solved
the question inherited from the first sequence: the revolution
prevailed, either through insurrection or prolonged popular war, in
Russia, China, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and succeeded in
establishing a new order.

But the second sequence in turn created a further problem, which it
could not solve using the methods it had developed in response to the
problems of the first. The party had been an appropriate tool for the
overthrow of weakened reactionary regimes, but it proved ill-adapted for
the construction of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in the sense
that Marx had intended—that is, a temporary state, organizing the
transition to the non-state: its dialectical ‘withering away’. Instead,
the party-state developed into a new form of #authoritarianism. Some of
these regimes made real strides in education, public health, the
valorization of labour, and so on; and they provided an international
constraint on the arrogance of the imperialist powers. However, the
#statist principle in itself proved corrupt and, in the long run,
ineffective. #Police #coercion could not save the ‘#socialist’ state from
internal #bureaucratic inertia; and within fifty years it was clear that
it would never prevail in the ferocious competition imposed by its
capitalist adversaries. The last great convulsions of the second
sequence—the Cultural Revolution and May 68, in its broadest sense—can
be understood as attempts to deal with the inadequacy of the party.

Alain #Badiou-Bibliography/The Communist Hypothesis/Lacan Dot Com

What is the #communist hypothesis? In its generic sense, given in its
canonic Manifesto, ‘communist’ means, first, that the logic of #class—the
fundamental #subordination of #labour to a dominant class, the arrangement
that has persisted since Antiquity—is not inevitable; it can be
overcome. The communist hypothesis is that a different #collective
organization is practicable, one that will eliminate the #inequality of
#wealth and even the division of labour. The #private appropriation of
massive fortunes and their transmission by inheritance will disappear.
The existence of a #coercive #state, separate from #civil #society, will no
longer appear a necessity: a long process of reorganization based on a
#free #association of #producers will see it withering away.

‘#Communism’ as such denotes only this very general set of intellectual
representations. It is what Kant called an Idea, with a regulatory
function, rather than a programme. It is foolish to call such communist
principles #utopian; in the sense that I have defined them here they are
intellectual patterns, always actualized in a different fashion. As a
pure Idea of #equality, the communist hypothesis has no doubt existed
since the beginnings of the state. As soon as mass action opposes #state
#coercion in the name of #egalitarian #justice, rudiments or fragments of
the hypothesis start to appear. Popular #revolts—the #slaves led by
#Spartacus, the #peasants led by #Müntzer—might be identified as practical
examples of this ‘communist invariant’. With the French Revolution, the
communist hypothesis then inaugurates the epoch of political modernity.

Alain #Badiou-Bibliography/The Communist Hypothesis/Lacan Dot Com

The key witness that our societies are clearly in-human is today the #undocumented #foreign #proletarian: he is the mark, immanent to our situation, that there is only one world. Treating the foreign proletarian as coming from another world, voila the specific task assigned to the “minister of national identity”, who disposes of his own police force (border police). To affirm, against such a statist operation, that any undocumented worker is from the same world as oneself, and to work through the practical, egalitarian, and militant consequences, voila, an example-type of provisional #morality, a local orientation homogeneous to the #communist hypothesis in the global disorientation in which solely its restoration can ward of.

The Courage of the Present, by Alain #Badiou

“So when philosophy examines politics it cannot, to begin with, be along the line of pure #freedom, and certainly not a freedom of opinions. It deals with the question, what could be the political #truth? Or, what is politics when it obeys the following two principles; first, compatibility with the philosophical principle of the #equality of minds; second, compatibility with the philosophical principle of the subordination of the validity of opinions to #universality of #truths. So equality and universality are the characteristics of valid politics in the field of philosophy.”

• Alain #Badiou - #Democracy, #Politics and #Philosophy