COMMUNISM OR DEMOCRACY? A TALK BEETWEEN ALAIN BADIOU AND MARCEL GAUCHET

Abstract

In front of the crisis of the neoliberalism in nowadays, what political orientation to get? To improve the institutions of the political representation to control the excesses of the capitalism, or reject the parliamentary democracy as too much compromised with it, searching a new form of society's organization, more communal? In a dialogue between Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet, published in a recent book, these and others questions are treated, like the meaning of the historical communism, the contemporary capitalism and the future of the democracy.