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==Book Description==
Over the last six years, [[Greece]] has provided the [[world]] with “an open-air [[political]] lesson.” The country’s deep [[economic]] and [[social]] crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions of the [[European Union]], and indeed the [[capitalist]] world as a [[whole]]. It has been a [[test]] [[case]] for movements seeking to put an end to the authoritarian [[anarchy]] of neoliberal [[capitalism]]. The Greek [[resistance]] to EU institutions and financial-[[market]] [[hegemony]] offered a beacon of hope. Yet the “movementist” [[politics]] of 2011 could not build anything lasting, and Syriza’s efforts as a party of [[government]] soon led to [[impasse]]. For [[Alain]] [[Badiou]], it is not enough to mourn this defeat—we must [[understand]] why such a vigorous opposition could fail.
''Greece and the Reinvention of Politics'' argues that an opposition of [[real]] consequence must revive the “[[communist]] hypothesis,” the [[vision]] of an alternative [[state]] [[structure]]. The “orienting maxims” that this hypothesis provides light the way for effective political [[action]]. Written in the storm of the crisis, the interventions collected in this book offer a path out of our contemporary powerlessness.
