> 2.) Re-discover the "communist hypothesis".
>
> In his important little book, _The Meaning of Sarkozy_, Alain Baidou
> discusses the difference between a critique of Sarkozy which is
> informed by what he calls the "communist hypothesis" and one which
> denies or is ignorant of this hypothesis.
Though given Badiou's complete indifference, hostility even, to political economy and labor politics -- "there can be no economic battle against the economy"; "we must go from politics to economics and never from economics to politics" -- it'd be more precise to call his version the "maoist hypothesis."