The Communist Horizon

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.

Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including The Communist Horizon and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies.