Abstract

The Common that is Least Common. It is not a mere accident if the notion of The Common designates both what is shared by several and something which is banal or trivial. Nothing is more shared than that which is most ordinary. The consequence is that the representations of a « Communism » -even if we leave aside the reference to the various regimes which appropriated the idea of « communism »- are so easily charged with the mistrust which is addressed to the idea of levelling, and with the accusation of seeking to liquidate distinction and superiority. What is collective is accused of stifling originality. « Real » communisms did nothing to try to project a different image. However the communist idea need involve nothing that is « common ». On the contrary. It should open upon the denunciation of the vulgarity of individualism