Can I translate Alain Badiou on the Cultural Revolution? Yes, but the results are uninspiring. ("Resurrection of a revolutionary paradigm," preface to Jiang Hongsheng's record of the Shanghai Commune)
〈What follows is a text written in French by Alain Badiou. It was written as a preface to Jiang Hongsheng’s La Commune de Shanghai et la Commune de Paris, which was, I believe, prepared and translated from his doctoral dissertation, “The Paris Commune in Shanghai: the Masses, the State, and …
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