--- CK Vishwanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: "Sayan Bhattacharyya" > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:02 AM, CK Vishwanath > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Alan badiou's article,"The communist hypothesis" > (new left > > review,Jan-feb,2008) > > > A most provocative and interesting article. > > Here is a key passage from the article: > > "The solution will be neither the formless, or > multi-form, popular movement > inspired by the intelligence of the multitude--as > Negri and the > alter-globalists believe--nor the renewed and > democratized mass communist > party, as some of the Trotskyists and Maoists hope. > The (19th-century) > movement and the (20th-century) party were specific > modes of the communist > hypothesis; it is no longer possible to return to > them. Instead, after the > negative experiences of the 'socialist' states and > the ambiguous lessons of > the Cultural Revolution and May 68, our task is to > bring the communist > hypothesis into existence in another mode, to help > it emerge within new > forms of political experience. This is why our work > is so complicated, so > experimental. We must focus on its conditions of > existence, rather than just > improving its methods. We need to re-install the > communist hypothesis--the > proposition that the subordination of labour to the > dominant class is not > inevitable--within the ideological sphere." > > Full: > <http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2705 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
