Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. He is also a lefty. He proposes that we reject objective truth, but that we retain truth as being subjective but universally binding. He suggests that to do this we must reject differentiation in the subject. In its place we should see ourselves as one political subject led by the revolutionaries who have “seen the truth” in the event. Along with other emerging European Marxists1, Badiou co-opts St. Paul in his project – being the declarer of the Christ-event instituting a new universal truth available to all men through the abolishment of the predicates “Jew” and “Greek.” His assumptions about a material reality are…