The Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean

The Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean

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.

Praise for Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies "Jodi's sharp analysis of the impasses of the left is also a kind of requiem for much of the 20 bluster of the last decade." Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism "Jodi Dean's new book provides what we have all been waiting for: the authentic theoretical analysis of how ideology functions in today's global capitalism. Her diagnosis of 'communicative capitalism' discloses how our 'really-existing democracies' curtail prospects of radical emancipatory politics. To anyone who continues to dwell in illusions about liberal democracy, one should simply say: 'Hey, didn't you read Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies?'" Slavoj A iA ek

Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written many books, including Crowds and Party and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies.

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ISBN 13	9781844679546
ISBN 10	1844679543
Titre	The Communist Horizon
Auteur	Jodi Dean
Série	Pocket Communism
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Verso Books
Année de publication	2012-10-09
Nombre de pages	256
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