Alain Badiou. Destruction, Negation, Subtraction. 2007 7/10

[ZEPANIAHW]

Most important enemy is not destruction but negation of the negation - well said

The empahasis on subtraction or the positive affirmation rather than destruction focus us on the post capitalist alternatives within capitalism.

I think we have not studied the failures of socialism sufficiently to dismiss them blanketly like Badiou does.

[righton041]

perhaps you misunderstand the relationship between subtraction and what you call "post capitalism"... as Badiou himself says, subtraction on its OWN, without destruction, is accepting the rules of the enemy. In other words, there can be no "solution" that exists within capitalism.

[Krelianx]

I'm not sure what you are suggesting. Certainly the subtraction of politics would be done in conjunction to the destruction of capitalist and democratic ideals. In this sense you can call them 'post-capitalist', but it is not clear what shape this new politics could take, for anyone, at this point.

So it is also not clear to me that Badiou is dismissing anything. Clearly our situation makes capitalism and democracy central, but this is not to say socialism is simply forgotten.