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Das Werk von Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) ist nicht zuletzt auch aus der Sicht von Marx als das eines utopischen Sozialisten bewertet worden. Der utopische Charakter seiner Lehre begründet sich aus der "Naivität" eines Teils seiner Argumente, dem Willen, eine "positive Politik" zu entwickeln und dem Anspruch, aus der Ordnung der objektiven Realität menschliche Ziele herauslesen zu können. (AuD-Hng)

Resumé Comment l'Eglise de Paris a vécu l'occupation des lieux de culte.

Alain Badiou's (The Century [2007 translation]) revolutionary aspiration for the "emergence of another humanity" is not based on nostalgia for Leninism, but is, rather, a response to the failure of Leninism & a plea to go beyond not only 19th- but 20th-century political forms. Both Lenin's & Mao Zedong's goals for human freedom were crushed by their institutionalization. In China's Cultural Revolution, Mao urged the people to overthrow state, industrial, & educational control, but after they did, their democratic energy was damped & then dominated by the sovereign authority of Mao. The author argues that the contradictions of Maoist politics are a problem of political theology, in that the party-state's claim to "serve the people" implies that the state is a divinity, & its citizens religious communicants. Indeed, his charisma was such that the people believed in the man here called "Saint Mao" & thus did not challenge "his" state. Using Badiou's conceptual framework (Polemics [2006 translation]), this essay analyzes the Chinese Revolution in terms of whether revolutionary politics can be devoid of theology; & whether "emancipatory" projects can "change the human being in what is most profound" if they are not viewed as sacred. S. Stanton