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In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted exploited populations the world over to the unsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetual growth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodation with capitalism.
In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if we organize on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity can’t develop into a revolution and it needs to constitute itself as a party.
An innovative work of pressing relevance, The Communist Horizon offers nothing less than a manifesto for a new collective politics.
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To anyone who continues to dwell in illusions about liberal democracy, one should simply say: read Jodi Dean's new book!" Slavoj Zizek
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"Jodi’s sharp analysis of the impasses of the left is also a kind of requiem for much of the 2.0 bluster of the last decade." Mark Fisher, author of < i=""> Capitalist Realism <>
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"Jodi’s sharp analysis of the impasses of the left is also a kind of requiem for much of the 2.0 bluster of the last decade." Mark Fisher, author of < i=""> Capitalist Realism <>
Synopsis
Rising thinker on the resurgence of the communist idea.
Synopsis
In this new title in Verso's Pocket Communism series Jodi Dean argues for the continued force of communism today. It amounts to a horizon, the focus of our journey.
With communism as our horizon, the field of possibilities for revolutionary theory and practice starts to change shape and barriers to action fall away. Our combined strength replaces our separate weakness, our collective desire replaces individual drive, and mobilized wills replace passive indecision. When the illusion that capitalism is the only reality dissolves, anything is possible. She shows that the global anti-capitalist movement associated with Occupy Wall Street gets its bearings from the communist horizon as it expresses the intensity of collective desires to organize in struggle against the corporate and financial elite. Jodi Dean presents nothing less than a manifesto for a new politics and a new collectivity.
About the Author
JODI DEAN teaches political theory in upstate New York. She has authored or edited eleven books, including The Communist Horizon, Zizek’s Politics, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, and Blog Theory.