Linhart, Badiou and Ranciere, on the subject of factories and politics

This article examines Robert Linhart, Alain Badiou, y Jacques Ranciere's reflections on the relationship between politics and factory. These French Intellectuals were all Luis Althusser's followers until the events of May 1968 and the emergence of Maoism pushed them aside. The article follows the political trajectory of these three intellectuals since that moment and their ideas on topics such as students' proletarization and their relation to the labor movement; the different means for political action, and the formation of the New Left in the seventies. It also inquires into the changes developed on the theory and history of the working class and the relationship between workers and students in connection with the crisis of the Communist movement and the socialist states. Finally, it approaches Ranciere and Badiou's latest thinking on the crisis of contemporary political thought, the role of workers in it and the reformulation of a project of human emancipation.