The Communist Hypothesis

<i>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. </i>Alain Badiou Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis' first stated in 2008 cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.