In his analysis of the possibilities of doing-thinking politics today, Alain Badiu starts from the fact of the decomposition of Marxism, interpreting it as a consequence of the linking of Marx's thought (absorbed in showing the invasion of the real into political reality) in domestic political conventions, and attempts to re-establish Marxism as a thought centered on the interpretation of what allows an event to happen, on the basis of which the oppressed would be able to assert their own existence. The pioneers in justifying this dimension of politics are Pascal, Rousseau, Mallarmé and Lacan.