Earlier this year a friend wondered aloud in a text thread whether Judith Butler is the most influential intellectual/writer since Marx—as measured by global, material, political effects. I posed Mao as another possibility. But I could not for the life of me remember which French or German critical theorist has continued, since the 1960s, to identify as a Maoist and to claim Maoism as a kind of orienting political vision. It’s Alain Badiou: here and here.

Leaving this here for myself, when I inevitably forget again.