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Lara Crete: Dear Loius/Less, hope you will find it worth of posting
Thank very much
Alan Badiou: “The Meaning of Sarkozy”
Can we talk about the “legacy of the Soviet Union” without analyzing
the Communist hypothesis, its legacy and intervals, which arrested
its development ? Hardly so. We can victoriously sink into
discussions on “ who raped whom in the World War II”, we can
fearlessly spit into the Stalin’s face ( not making a small effort
to glance through his anti-racial work, such as “The National
Question” ), we can take the dead sites: one of Trotsky, another of
Stalin and become “the enemies within” and we can certainly blame the
Soviets’ people of Russia for committing the crime against humanity
by selling out this very hypothesis. I wish, I am convincing,
representing Alain Badiou’s book : “ The Meaning Of Sarkozy”. The
good French does not waste a word while going into depth of the
history of the Communist hypothesis and emerges from there with the
certainty,which only the great optimism is capable for.
Alain Badiou: “ There have been two sequences in the communist
hypothesis: that off its setting up, its installation, and that of the
first attempt of its realization.
The first sequence runs
from the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, say from 1792-1871.
It lasted nearly eighty years.” (....)
“The second
sequence ran from 1917 ( the Russian Revolution) to 1976. The second
sequence,which has ran for over half a century was very complex and
was dominated by the question of time.How to achieve victory? How, as
against the Paris Commune,to endure in the face of the bloody reaction
of the possessors and their mercenaries? How to organize the new
power,the new state,in such a way as to protect it from destruction by
its enemies?Lenin’s great question was to answer these
questions” (...) “What the nineteenth century dreamed of and
experimented with the twentieth century had to accomplish fully”.
(...) “Between the first and the second
sequence, between Marx
and the early Lenin, there were forty years of triumphant
imperialism”. I am talking about sequences of the communist
hypothesis, separated by intervals, when this hypothesis is untenable,
even absurd and criminal, and has to be abandoned”. (...) “The
strategic problem bound up with the third sequence”... Our time is
“now”, the interval is tuff...”What Is To Be Done”?
Alien Badiou:
“We must re-establish the hypothesis in the field of ideology and
action”
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LC: The search of the meaning of Sarkozy, or the meaning of Obama-
Bush, or of Gorbachev- Putin-Medvedev leads to the only conclusion:
there is no other “meaning” in our time ruling regime,but the
necessity to take care of the masses education in Marxism-
Leninism,what must lead to the reformation of the masses
consciousness. Such is the meaning of the Alan
Badiou book. It
certainly echoes the meaning of Hegel’s insistence on the theoretical
education of masses at his time,when he was reflectioning on the
outcome of The French Revolution.In this light, the Conference
dedicated to the Restoration of the Marx Movement in Europe,which took
place in Italy in midd December and which was organized and lead by
the prominent Professor of Philosophy Domenico Losurdo, must be
greeted by Marxists as the huge step toward this goal.
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