Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

There he engaged in fierce intellectual debates with fellow professors Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard whose philosophical works he considered unhealthy deviations from the Althusserian program of a scientific Marxism. Biography
Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1957–1961). Badiou has written about the concepts of being truth and the subject in a way that he claims is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity.

Badiou has written about the concepts of being truth and the subject in a way that he claims is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Politically Badiou is committed to the far left and to the communist tradition.