Alain Badiou Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

  Alain Badiou

  Humanity, Nihilism, Savages

• We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

  Alain Badiou

  Character, Democracy, Communism

• To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

  Alain Badiou

  Believe, Men, Car

  Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott (2012). “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings”, p.20, Verso Books

• I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Simple, Today

  "Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels". "Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions", Book edited by Gabriel Riera, 2005.

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