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DESCRIPTION:Come and  join Revolution Books in a Discussion of  Alain Badiou's 
 'Politics of Emancipation:' A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the 
 Bourgeois World by Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A. from the first 
 issue of Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and 
 Polemic.\n\nBadiou's work, which is attracting growing interest, is an 
 important expression, among one-time communists, of "the retreat to the 
 18th century," to the bourgeois democratic ideals of Rousseau, Kant and 
 Jefferson-all in the name of communism, or in Badiou's terms, reviving the 
 communist\n"hypothesis."\n\nThe themes of this polemic, such as the 
 fundamental distinction between communism and radical bourgeois democracy, 
 the need and the basis of the 'party-state' in making revolution and 
 emancipating humanity, and the rationale, content, and goals of the Great 
 Proletarian Cultural\nRevolution in China are of much wider significance at 
 this historical juncture.In particular, the polemic's critiques of Badiou's 
 theses on the Shanghai Commune of 1967 and Badiou's notions of the ruptural 
 "event" offer something far more radical and far more emancipatory. They 
 would be\nof interest to those yearning for a radically different and 
 better world, especially the youth.\n\nThis article can be found online at 
 demarcations-journal.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/15/18616056.php
SUMMARY:Discussion of a polemic vs. Badiou's "Politics of Emancipation"
LOCATION:Revolution Books 2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/15/18616056.php
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