HARDtalk
Alain Badiou
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S13 • E4 Mar 25, 2009 30mIn a 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 caf society believe communism is the answer to the current crisis?
Alain Badiou talks to Stephen Sackur.
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 caf society believe communism is the answer to the current crisis?
Alain Badiou talks to Stephen Sackur.
