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The reactionary [[tradition ]] behind Sarkozy, and the [[communist ]] hypothesis for the twenty-first century.

In this incisive, acerbic [[work]], [[Alain ]] [[Badiou ]] looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the [[French ]] president to decipher the [[true ]] [[significance ]] of what he represents—a reactionary tradition that goes back more than a hundred years. To escape the malaise that has enveloped the [[Left ]] since Sarkozy’s election, Badiou casts aside the slavish worship of electoral [[democracy ]] and maps out a communist hypothesis that lays the basis for an emancipatory [[politics ]] of the twenty-first century.