A new salvo in Verso's burgeoning series on communism, after Badiou, Zizek and Groys
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality of Communism. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.
The idea of Communism is rising from its grave once again - but
what does it effectively amount to? Bosteels confronts this issue
with no illusions, in a critical dialogue with today's Leftist
thinkers, as well as with radical political practices such those of
the Morales government in Bolivia. A beautifully written work which
is a must for everyone interested in what's left of the
contemporary Left.
*Slavoj Zizek*
The Actuality of Communism is a remarkable achievement. Critically
engaging some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary left
political theory, it moves beyond them, resetting the agenda for
communism as not only a hypothesis and not only a struggle, but
more vitally as the affirmation of the engaged, organized,
political movement for emancipation and equality.
*Theory & Event*
The book does what interventions must, namely draw a line of
demarcation, in this case between communism as a real
overdetermined process that must engage with the question of power
and recent philosophical attempts to resuscitate the term as a
pure, invariant kernel of sheer potentiality that exceeds any
constitute power or historical actuality - an actuality which
always amounts, in this instance, to the questions of state power
and of socialism, as a certain modelling and management of the
production of social wealth.
*Radical Philosophy*
The last places in today's America you would expect mass strikes
would be the ultra-red states of West Virginia, Oklahoma, and
Arizona -- until tens of thousands of education workers there
organized themselves and shut down the schools. Red State Revolt by
Eric Blanc gives a unique inside view of how these actions were
organized and how they forced state governments and rightwing
politicians not only to raise teachers pay but to elevate the role
of public education. If you want to understand the power of workers
and the strike, even in a time when labor seems down if not out,
read Red State Revolt.
*Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!*
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