Vive Quebec!
François Gauvin: What do you think of the student conflict in Québec?
Alain Badiou: What I find interesting is the scale and determination of the phenomenon. Basically, what is happening in Québec is a sudden and widespread resistance to a global phenomenon, which is trying to apply the business model to every kind of human activity. Like a business, the university is supposed to become self-financing, whereas historically it was built up according to quite different rules. The conflict obviously took the particular and very localized form of a fight against the planned rise in university fees, which then spread to an opposition to the government’s handling of the crisis. But it is clear that at the core of the uprising is a subjectivity in revolt against the idea that business should be the paradigm for everything. And this point of resistance is now mobilizing a large-scale debate which concerns us all, and the outcome of which is not predictable.
François Gauvin: Would you make a comparison with the student revolt of May 1968, when you were a Maoist leader calling for revolution?
Alain Badiou: Yes, in terms of its ways of acting, its style, its inventiveness. That is the first reminder of May ’68, the first great echo of an active, joyful subjectivity that does not shy away from conflict when this is needed – even if it is dividing Québec society. It was just the same in 1968. The students attracted sympathy, but as we saw in the June 1968 legislative elections, which were won by the party of General de Gaulle, French society was completely divided.
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Anonymous
Montreal Rising!
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Peristal
Wow. So I'm from Québec and NO Québec WON'T always be CANADA. There is TWO nation in this '' country'' just accept it. I don't know why, but Canadians will never accept that we don't want to be enslaved by us, even if since ''The conquest'' (the fake conquest) they try to enslave us. Just accept that we want to stay french frog, and do not want to become squarehead. ;)
So, if you english speakers think you are better that the entire world because you speak the ''First language' I just challenge you to express yourself in your second language like I just did, because English is my second language. Le français est ma première langue.
Bref, la résistance vient des QUÉBÉCOIS, les CANADIENS ne se sont toujours pas levés.
Peristal
Read: by them, not by us.
Québec aux québécois
I'll try and raise the level a little bit and come back to the article. There will be general elections in Quebec this september and I fear that the current government will pass again due to the division of the votes.
During the strike, this same government almost entirely subsidized a 243 Km/long road to connect with the Stornoway Co. diamond mine in northern Quebec. The cost of that road? Almost 300 million can/$! For a road that will almost exclusively be used by the company....
All the while telling students, and the rest of the population, they must give their fair share for public services. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Neolibelarism is contaminating all fields of life, including healthcare and education. This what the student strike is about, take back what the neolibs are stealing from us!
As for all of the comments about colonialism, I don't think you can quantify who was worse and what not. They were all pretty terrible....
Anonymous
"some of my success might rube off on to you non Americans."
wow you just resumed in one phrase the problem with americans.
A jerk is a jerk, no matter where he comes from.
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