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★The Communist Hypothesis★

By Alain Badiou

Translated by David Macey and Steven Corocoran

Contents

Preamble: What Is Called Failure?

I — We Are Still the Contemporaries of May ’68

* 1. May ’68 Revisited, 40 Years On

* 2. Outline of a Beginning

* 3. This Crisis Is the Spectacle: Where Is the Real?

II — The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?

* A Brief Chronology of the Cultural Revolution

III — The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics

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IV — The Idea of Communism

Appendix. Letter from Alain Badiou to Slavoj ZiZek: On the Work of Mao Zedong