The communist hypothesis
by Alain Badiou · first published 2010
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…we should support modern day Marxists (and non-Marxian Communists), anarchists and Communalists in their research and investigation into advancing their hypothesis. A good read on this is Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis.
on “IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]” ↗…that, if they talk in favour of it, they have a different idea of Communism to you? Modern Communist academics do, we must investigate the ontology of Communism; a good read on this is from Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis. Most modern academic Communists believe that we must search for what happened, how to prevent it and how to move past it, to say nothing of the various splinters and brothers in the Communist family…
on “China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages” ↗…Communism, within academia the meaning of Communism can be stretched much father than you may have anticipated; Badiou writes, "where there is a State, there is Communism to oppose it". This is known as the Communist hypothesis. On to the definiton of capitalism, the main factor is the private ownership of social means of production. By this I mean that the majority apparatus used to produce goods which society exchanges and…
on “How Big Banks Became Our Masters” ↗…to be distracting and needlessly hostile. >but you keep insisting in trying again a system that again and again has proven itself to be horrible. Not really; have you heard of Badiou's concept of the Communist Hypothesis? His argument is that Socialism, well, Communism has existed as an Idea for centuries, it is always the force to break down the "present state of things", it is the first element of society, the subversive…
on “Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will” ↗…This is why Communism is an anarchist ideology, in recognition of the very problem you have mentioned. Modern day Communists such as Zizek and Badiou accept this, and Badiou urges us to continue with the Communist Hypothesis[0]. The Soviet model was initially radical, but it was not radical enough to overcome the power structures which were much more entrenched than the founders of the revolution thought. So I still think…
on “Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub (2016) [video]” ↗…bourgeois is most developed. It seems to me from the outside as though China has wholly abandoned the Communist cause in a less obvious way than North Korea has. I'm about to start reading Badiou on the "Communist Hypothesis". It is clear the modern Marxists and Communists in general need to develop their praxis, or I am unaware of the modern developments.
on “Chinese chatbots apparently re-educated after political faux pas” ↗…from the views espoused by Communists pre and post Marx; as Marx said, the theory of Communism can be condensed to one statement: the abolition of private property. However as Badiou notes, there is the Communist Hypothesis[0], that is, the idea of these subversive movements which aim for liberation and the removal of our class structures - these may not necessarily involve the full abolition of private property. I do not…
on “Neoliberalism and the commodification of opinions” ↗I don't wish to excuse past totalitarian states, but the Communist hypothesis as Badiou writes is much broader than totalitarian forms of government; it is the job of modern day Marxists to consider why it happens and how to prevent it. I have nothing against free trade, I am…
on “Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana” ↗…done in Marxist (and post-Marxist) circles since about the 1950s, you may have heard of the Frankfurt School, for instance. Alain Badiou, a contemporary French philosopher, has written a book called "The Communist Hypothesis" in which he attempts to "rescue" Communism, not merely as a "less-bad" alternative to capitalism (even considering the track record in history) but as the only alternative. He uses the example of approaches…
on “The Opium of the Intellectuals (2005)” ↗…more so than Maoists (who are heavily suspicious of the pro-capital Dengist reforms) or Stalinists. It's not ironic at all; it is only ironic when you conflate the CCP with what Badiou describes as the Communist hypothesis.
on “The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker” ↗