k-punk
Spectres of Mark
A passage from Badiou's <i>Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism</i> HIGHLY relevant to a number of recent threads here:
'What is the real unifying factor behind [the] attempt to promote the cultural virtue of oppressed subsets, this invocation of language in order to extol communitarian particularisms (which, besides language, always refer back to race, religion, or gender)?
It is, evidently, monetary abstraction, whose false universality has absolutely no difficulty accommodating the kaleidoscope of communitarianisms.
The lengthy years of communist dictatorship will have had the merit of showing that financial globalization, the absolute sovereignty of capital's empty universality, had as its genuine enemy another universal project, albeit a corrupt and bloodstained one: that only Lenin and Mao truly frightened those who professed to boast unreservedly about the merits of liberalism and their general equivalent, or the democratic virtues of commercial communication.
The senescent collapse of the USSR, the paradigm of socialist States, provisionally suspended fear, unleashed empty abstraction, debased thought in general. And it is certainly not by renouncing the concrete universality of truths in order to affirm the rights of 'minorities,' be they racial, religious, national, or sexual, that the devastation will be slowed down.
No, we will not allow the rights of tue-thought to have as their only instance monetarist free exchange and its mediocre political appendage, capitalist-parliamentarism, whose squalor is ever more poorly dissimulated through the fine word 'democracy'."
Yay.... go girl!!!!!!!!
'What is the real unifying factor behind [the] attempt to promote the cultural virtue of oppressed subsets, this invocation of language in order to extol communitarian particularisms (which, besides language, always refer back to race, religion, or gender)?
It is, evidently, monetary abstraction, whose false universality has absolutely no difficulty accommodating the kaleidoscope of communitarianisms.
The lengthy years of communist dictatorship will have had the merit of showing that financial globalization, the absolute sovereignty of capital's empty universality, had as its genuine enemy another universal project, albeit a corrupt and bloodstained one: that only Lenin and Mao truly frightened those who professed to boast unreservedly about the merits of liberalism and their general equivalent, or the democratic virtues of commercial communication.
The senescent collapse of the USSR, the paradigm of socialist States, provisionally suspended fear, unleashed empty abstraction, debased thought in general. And it is certainly not by renouncing the concrete universality of truths in order to affirm the rights of 'minorities,' be they racial, religious, national, or sexual, that the devastation will be slowed down.
No, we will not allow the rights of tue-thought to have as their only instance monetarist free exchange and its mediocre political appendage, capitalist-parliamentarism, whose squalor is ever more poorly dissimulated through the fine word 'democracy'."
Yay.... go girl!!!!!!!!