From the Introduction
This book is about communism. How one speaks of communism depends on what one considers as communism. In what follows I I understand communism as the project to submit economics to politics, that is to say, to allow politics to works in a free and sovereign manner. Economics works in the medium of money. It operates with numbers. Politics works in the medium of language. It operates with words , not just arguments, agendas and resolutions, but also with commands, injunctions, decisions and decrees. The communist revolution is the transformation of society from the monetary medium to the linguistic medium. It is a linguistic turn on the plane of social praxis. For it does not suffice to define man as a speaking entity as is the dominant view in recent philosophy regardless of all nuances and internal differences between independent philosophical positions. As long as man lives under the conditions of capitalist economy, man will remain mute since his destiny does not speak to him. When man is not addressed by his destiny he cannot respond.The economical praxis is anonymous and defies articulation. You cannot enter into a debate with it. You cannot make it change its mind, convince or persuade it with words to side with you. The only thing you can do is to adjust your attitude towards the economical praxis. There’s no arguing with economic failure just as there’s no discursive foundation for economic success. Eventually, in capitalism, the affirmation or denial of human praxis is not linguistic but economic. It is not expressed in words but numbers. This is what puts language as such out of play.
(Translating bits and pieces as I go through this little book )
