Roma Locuta Est, Deal With It

“Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken? By what external standard could you check its judgements?”— George Orwell, 1984, Part III, Section IVFor the French Communist Alain Badiou, philosophy is merely an elaboration of some great “Event” to which the philosopher is faithful. Badiou’s event was the Cultural Revolution, and the one intellectual on the world stage was Mao Zedong, who Badiou claims