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Politics, in order to be, has to be organized. The question of the form of organization of politics is probably the most important aspect of political thinking today. What is our task “after Lenin”? That is to say, what is the task of the militants of Communism today? How are we to rethink the collective and organized action and thought? In other words, this is the definition as well as the condition of politics. Along with Althusser and Pasolini, as well as with Badiou and Žižek, we are not talking about any form of politics; the only politics worthy of the name is (for the former) Marxist–Leninist politics, which in our situation should be named as Communism. Departing from this, how are we to rethink the idea of Communism?
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Notes
- 1.
Althusser (1991), p.20.
- 2.
Althusser (2006), p.128.
- 3.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
- 5.
Ibid.
- 6.
Ibid., pp.130–131.
- 7.
For more, Cf. Crisis and Critique, Volume 3/Issue 1
- 8.
Cf. Žižek & Hamza 2013; Hamza 2014.
- 9.
Cf. Hamza 2015, pp. 226–242.
- 10.
Lenin 1920.
- 11.
Quoted from Ravetto-Biagioli 2014, p. 94.
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Hamza, A. (2016). Pasolini’s Political Thought. In: Althusser and Pasolini. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56652-2_27
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