Description: "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.Review Quotes: "A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"--Slavoj iek
"A Little Red Book for our time?"--Platypus "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."--Lucy Wadham, New Statesman "Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy."--Times Higher Education Supplement "One of the saddest, funniest books of the past 20 years."--John Kappes, Cleveland Plain Dealer