Nuno R.’s Reviews > Greece and the Reinvention of Politics > Status Update

Four principles to test:
"1. It is possible to organise collective life around something other than private property and profit.
2. It is possible to organise production around something other than the specialisation and division of labour.
3. It is possible to organise collective life on some basis other than that of closed identitarian units [...]
4. It is possible to make the state [...] gradually disappear.

"We can formally be anti-capitalists at the same time as being deeply convinced that no alternative is possible and that we have to operate within the capitalist framework."

This inspires me the idea that the oposite is true for some of us: we can operate within the capitalist framework (and be functional, formally) still being deeply convinced that a better alternative is not just possible, it's necessary.

"Yet a politics is always the encounter between the discipline of ideas and the surprise of circumstances."

Badiou is truly an inspiration: "With happiness, the true opposition is not between the future and the past. Rather, it splits the present into a conservative representation focused on security and an urgent, enthusiastic attachment to what has never taken place and yet is coming.
Communist happiness means thinking ‘Love what you will never see twice.’"