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The Mirror of Speculative Leftism: Álvaro García Linera and the Incalculability of Politics

Abstract In this piece I argue that the unfolding projection of the state-form as event, such as it is currently underway in thought about Bolivia, assumes the total calculability of politics. This calculability is at odds with the very concept of event that underwrites it from the start. The fundamental paradox is that once one posits the ability of the new revolutionary state to manage ‘the extinction of exclusion’, one also introduces the image of the state as totality and as embodiment of the real community. Thus, another name for calculability in what follows is the ability of the state to fully account for all in the community. Whatever this state might be, it should be noted that it stands in stark contradiction to any post-Althusserian theory of Marxism, where Marxism is revealed as inseparable from what deviates. Thus, to detect deviations from a proper form is to fall back on an idea of politics not determined by the unfolding events of history but overdetermined by an abstract idea of what can be calculated. The texts of Álvaro García Linera are of great importance in this regard, and not just as possible guides for what is taking place in Bolivia today.