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There is no final solution on the horizon today, [[Capital ]] is here to stay, all we can hope for is a temporary truce. That is to say, undoubtedly worse that this deadlock would have been a pseudo Deleuzian celebration of the successful [[revolt ]] of the [[multitude]].

What one should problematize is rather the [[self ]] evident opposite of this "anticapitalism": the trust in the democratic substance of the honest Americans to break up the conspiracy. THIS is the hard kernel of today's [[global ]] [[capitalist ]] [[universe]], its [[true ]] [[Master ]] [[Signifier]]: [[democracy]]. And are the latest statements of Negri and Hardt not a kind of unexpected confirmation of this [[Badiou]]'s insight? Following a paradoxical [[necessity]], their very (focusing on) anti-[[capitalism ]] led [[them ]] to acknowledge the revolutionary force of capitalism, so that, as they put it recently, one no longer [[needs ]] to fight capitalism, because capitalism is already in itself generating [[communist ]] potentials-the "becoming-communist of capitalism," to put it in Deleuzian [[terms]]...

* [[The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology]]. ''[[Lacanian ]] Ink''. Volume 26, Fall. pp 118-125. <http://www.lacan.com/frameXXVI6.htm>