In a BBC HARDtalk interview broadcast on 24 March 2009, Stephen Sackur talks to French socialist philospher Alain Badiou.
As the world's richest economies plunge deeper into recession could there be a whiff of revolution in the air?
Alain Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.
His recent book 'The Meaning of Sarkozy', in which he attacked the French President, has caused a storm in France.
But does anyone beyond Parisian café society believe communism is the answer to the current crisis?
Alain Badiou talks to Stephen Sackur.In a BBC HARDtalk interview broadcast on 24 March 2009, Stephen Sackur talks to French socialist philospher Alain Badiou.
As the world's ...all »In a BBC HARDtalk interview broadcast on 24 March 2009, Stephen Sackur talks to French socialist philospher Alain Badiou.
As the world's richest economies plunge deeper into recession could there be a whiff of revolution in the air?
Alain Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.
His recent book 'The Meaning of Sarkozy', in which he attacked the French President, has caused a storm in France.
But does anyone beyond Parisian café society believe communism is the answer to the current crisis?
Alain Badiou talks to Stephen Sackur.«
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