Description
| Product ID: | 9781781688700 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Communist Hypothesis |
| Authors: | Author: Alain Badiou |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy. This title presents a hypothesis that is partly a demand to reconceptualize communism after the twin deaths of the Soviet Union and neoliberalism, and also a demand for universal emancipation. “We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain Badiou Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-05-12 |
