ALAIN BADIOU THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS / LACAN - BIOGRAPHY / SLAVOJ ZIZEK - BIOGRAPHY

Electoralism and the state
If we posit a definition of politics as ‘collective action, organized by certain principles, that aims to unfold the consequences of a new possibility which is currently repressed by the dominant order’, then we would have to conclude that the electoral mechanism is an essentially apolitical procedure. This can be seen in the gulf between the massive formal imperative to vote and the free-floating, if not non-existent nature of political or ideological convictions.
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