Philosophy in the face of communism sets in motion the intense intellectual work that Alain Badiou, one of the most outstanding and influential thinkers of our time, has in recent years deployed around the problems of philosophy, subject and politics. Understanding communism as the intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on the existing policies, the author renews the bet and explains why, despite the abuses of "state communism", which must be repudiated, it is still necessary to adopt this vision against the Recurrent context of social crises, in an arc that goes from the Communist Manifesto to the current situation in the Middle East.
 
This agile and provocative book reviews the main debates in force since the second half of the twentieth century, in what is a formidable update of philosophical thought, and proposes to intensify the new nuclei of reflection and emancipation towards alternative forms of organization of "representation "Oppressive.