ABSTRACT
In this chapter, it is pointed out that every instance of a people should be considered ‘sovereign’, in the sense of possessing, somewhere along the line, indivisible powers. Thus, a distinction is introduced between power in the singular (as in a singularity) and powers in the plural. It is then argued that this will also include the national people (although we now know that this has nothing to do with a State). References here are Alain Badiou (once again), who is now connected to the immanentist thought of Georges Bataille and Friedrich Nietzsche. The relation of Marxism to the nation is also briefly considered (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Gramsci), and we ask why contemporary Marxism is so sutured to the ideology of globalization.
