Jodi Dean’s Comrade

I cannot review this book except in the first person singular, since it intersects with and is of great help to my longstanding efforts to draw a balance sheet of the communist movement, Marxism, and the Party form. How can I and my S&D comrades use this important book, what questions are to be posed to it and beyond it but because of it? I’ll discuss this in two parts and a coda.

The Party, the Comrade and Communist Renewal in the 21st Century – An Interview with Jodi Dean

Amidst deepening crisis and growing unrest, questions of organization and strategy are more urgent than ever. With a young generation casting off decades of anti-communist brainwashing and embracing socialism with enthusiasm, it is suddenly possible to explore themes which only a short time ago might have seemed the province of a marginalized fringe.

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