[D66] Alain Badiou, "The law on the headscarf is a pure capitalist law"

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Alain Badiou, "The law on the headscarf is a pure capitalist law"

By Miri Davidson / 04 June 2015
To coincide with the publication of three important works on the
intersections of race, class and feminism—Christine Delphy's Separate
and Dominate, Vron Ware's Beyond the Pale and Michele Wallace's Black
Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman—we re-publish an essay by Alain
Badiou on the French law on the headscarf, originally published in his
Polemics. Against rising Islamaphobic currents in France, Badiou
maintains: 'the enemy of thought today is property. It is commerce, and
such things as souls, but not faith.'